On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:17:58 EST, Christopher Morrow said: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Jake Khuon <kh...@neebu.net> wrote: > > > I guess this begs the question of whether or not we're seeing actual > > layer1 going down or just the effects of mass BGP withdrawals. Are we > > seeing lights out on fibre links or just peering sessions going down?
> out of curiousity, what's the difference though between loss of light > and peer shutdown? When Jake wrote that at 2:44AM, it was still unclear if it was government mandate or accidental. The difference is that if it was government action, bringing up a peer may get you a bullet, while relighting a cable that suffered a shark attack is probably safe unless it was a shark with frickin' lasers mounted on its head - which is plausible, as covert-action sharks have been alleged in that region before: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11937285
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