[Nottingham] Who needs more than 512k? Will 640k do?...

[Martin]

Folks,

To misquote an old quote: 512k ought to be enough for everybody?!


Looks like parts of the internet is suffering some old router hardware
512k table size limit:


The dull stuff:

http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/plota?file=%2fvar%2fdata%2fbgp%2fas2.0%2fbgp-active.txt&descr=Active%20BGP%20entries%20%28FIB%29&ylabel=Active%20BGP%20entries%20%28FIB%29&with=step

Major outages today, not much info at this time
http://marc.info/?l=nanog&m=140785997016587&w=2


(Surprisingly, the BBC have picked up on this!)

Browsing speeds may slow as net hardware bug bites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28786954


Too much information make router go bang

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2360306/512k-routing-bug-might-kill-the-internet-but-probably-wont



What that might mean is that some websites at random may well
'disappear' for a few hours until parts of the internet get
reprogrammed/rerouted over the coming days...


Cheers,
Martin



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