Re: Russian government’s disconnection test

2019-11-02 Thread Nick Hilliard
Sean Donelan wrote on 02/11/2019 19:32: Has anyone compared the network resiliancy and reliability in countries with centralized control with similar situated countries with decentralized networks? US-EU connectivity is curious. E.g. how many active transatlantic EU-US cable systems are ther

Re: Russian government’s disconnection test

2019-11-02 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sat, 02 Nov 2019 14:49:58 -0400, Christopher Morrow said: > I think the disconnect idea is actually a good one... I don't know > that I want to DO IT, but :) it certainly seems like a reasonable > disaster recovery planning exercise :) (likely doing it is the only > way to really suss out the pr

Re: Russian government’s disconnection test

2019-11-02 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Fred Baker wrote: This has nothing to do with cables, and everything to do with information control and politics. I agree with Fred, but trying to keep this on a technical list. Has anyone compared the network resiliancy and reliability in countries with centralized contr

Re: Russian government’s disconnection test

2019-11-02 Thread Christopher Morrow
I think the disconnect idea is actually a good one... I don't know that I want to DO IT, but :) it certainly seems like a reasonable disaster recovery planning exercise :) (likely doing it is the only way to really suss out the problems though) On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 12:19 PM Mike Bolitho wrote:

Re: Russian government’s disconnection test

2019-11-02 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 7:20 PM Mike Bolitho wrote: >> I would imagine that the internet is a whole less resilient today in 2019 >> than it was back in the day before the cloud takeover. > It's far more resilient now than it has ever been. More sub-sea cables. > Multiple routes across con

Re: Russian government’s disconnection test

2019-11-02 Thread Mike Bolitho
> > I would imagine that the internet is a whole less resilient today in 2019 > than it was back in the day before the cloud takeover. It's far *more* resilient now than it has ever been. More sub-sea cables. Multiple routes across continents. The very fact that there are AWS/Azure/Google Cloud d