A STRIKE, not a war. If a gateway - say, Kansas - happend to be gone, it would
automatically route around. Fortunately, this works as well with backhoes
wielded by uncaring (don't check first) gardners as it would for nuclear-tipped
missles wielded by commies. ;-)
Now, in a full-scale war the transmission and receiving site would be gone,
along with the relay......
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Subject: Re: Redundant Internet Connections
Author: Dave Crocker <dcrocker @
brandenburg .
com> at SMTPINET
Date: 3/25/96 12:24 AM
At 10:16 AM 3/22/96, Mr. Nick Keenan wrote:
>Well, the Internet is supposed to be redundant -- it was designed to surviv=
e
>nuclear war, after all. I know that you can set up backup routes, but I am
It's always fun to see the media distort things. This bit about
nuclear war has been a favorite for a couple of years now. The phrase used
during the development of the technology was "hostile (battle)field
conditions". Conventional scenarios are all that is reasonable to plan
for. Nuclear ones, per se, weren't part of the discussions. As folks
might have suspected, not much survives except roaches and they don't carry
large enough packets fast enough.
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