Comments | l33tsysadmin: the Internet is falling!

l33tsysadmin

the Internet is falling!

Oct 21, 2005 00:57

Layer3 fell off the face of the world's routing tables earlier tonight and is just now coming back online. Approximately 1/3 of the internet was affected. Layer3 is so large that other tier 1 ISPs purchase traffic from them and they too were down. It looks like this was a case of someone screwing up really really badly; I imagine someone will ( Read more... )

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princedanterose October 23 2005, 07:29:36 UTC

Ecuse me for being ignorant, but can you explain what Layer3 is, and how it works - or refer me to a good site.

Dante

Sure l33tsysadmin November 18 2005, 19:08:47 UTC

Layer3 is one of the largest ISPs in the world. They provide service to other ISPs and route traffic around the country and between the continents. They are what is known as a Tier 1 provider. They sell connections anywhere from T1 lines (1.544 mb/s, or about the average cable/dsl connections) to OC192s and 10g circuits (both about 10 gb/s which is about 10,200 cable/dsl connections)

ilovehimso_xx October 23 2006, 23:34:30 UTC

me too

superjwoman November 15 2005, 06:53:11 UTC

Ahh a random person who lives in cali..
add me? ;)

I did l33tsysadmin November 18 2005, 19:09:09 UTC

but I've not seen you post anything yet!

quieturinalcake December 12 2005, 04:42:46 UTC

0h mj g0d.... My n4m3 is j0hn 4s w3ll. Th4ts 4m4zing.