Check the nANOG archives for examples of whitehouse.gov, cia.gov etc. It certainly is.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 23:34 <mike.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Isn’t this why god invented CDNs? Though, i doubt the govment is > Akamized... > > -Mike > > On Apr 17, 2019, at 20:26, Mark Seiden <m...@seiden.com> wrote: > > of course p2p is the way to distribute this but i doubt the justice > department can admit there is any positive legitimate use for p2p. > > (i’ve been surprised that it hasn’t made it to wikileaks or bittorrent > yet. “russiar, are you listening?”) > > (i sure hope there’s a signed version or at least a hash.) > > i predict there will be versions with fake content, missing content, and > malware inserted that are distributed as well. > > > > > and i’ll bet there will be some infected pdf version as well distributed > that way. > On Apr 17, 2019, 7:57 PM -0700, fwessling--- via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, > wrote: > > And we may still see the web stack being the ultimate cause of the delay. > > > Parkinson's law always comes to the rescue:-) > More faster and efficient processing architecture, Hyper transport buses, > amd-64 Branch prediction. > Massively faster storage subsystems and disk arrays, SSD slab caching for > hypervisors > > And some dude with a AJAX framework to serve a PDF bringging the whole > thing to a a screeching halt > > On April 17, 2019 10:35:29 PM EDT, Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > Things will probably be easier this time. The Internet has evolved > > ways > > of dealing with exactly this problem. (Avi used to call it “slash-dot > > > insurance”, but the idea is the same.) Specifically: > > > Yep, it will be interesting to see where the chokepoints are tommorrow. > > In 1998, the bandwidth pipes never filled up. The chokepoint was in the > > TCP and Web stacks. Eventually the Associated Press got a copy of the > Starr Report on a CD from a congressional staffer. The press intern > running down the street holding a CD was faster than 1998 internet :-) > > We were also lucky in 1998, no one had thought of DDOS yet. > > > Frederick Wessling (CIO) > Succinct Systems LLC > Cell: +1(561) 571-2799 > Office: +1(904) 758-9915 ext. 9925 > Fax: +1(904) 758-9987 > www.SuccinctSystems.com > >
