5% of the Net is Unreachable 198
dasheiff writes "A BBC
Story says
US researchers reveal that up to 5% of the internet is completely unreachable. However the most interesting part is that they reported that many of the lost net sites flare into life briefly when being used to send spam or to launch attacks on other parts of the net."
Ironic (Score:5, Funny)
In related news... (Score:5, Funny)
Content-free article (Score:5, Funny)
Spammers hide on the 'net by playing with unsecured routers.
What worries me is that it took someone three years to figure this out...
Only 5%? (Score:5, Funny)
slashdotted? (Score:4, Funny)
Spammers, may they rest in the damnation of hell (Score:5, Funny)
These spamists spam not merely to waste bandwidth, but to disrupt and end a way of life. With every piece of unsolicited mail, they hope that genuine e-mailers grow fearful, retreating from cyber space and forsaking news groups. They stand against me, because I stand in their way.
I am not deceived by their pretenses to piety. I have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the spamist ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing bandwidth to serve their advertising visions -- by abandoning every value except the will to power -- they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded trash cans.
My response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated replies.
I should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic e-mails to ISP's, visible to News groups, and covert operations, secret even in success. I will starve spamists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from ISP to ISP, until there is no refuge or no rest. And I will pursue ISP's that provide aid or safe haven to spammers. Every ISP, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with me, or you are with the spamists.
From this day forward, any ISP that continues to harbor or support spamists will be regarded by me as a hostile regime.
maybe it's because (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ironic (Score:2, Funny)
Right now, I can't get to BBC [bbc.co.uk], The Guardian [guardian.co.uk], or The Register [theregister.co.uk].
Maybe they've shut the uk domain down for boxing day.
Public addresses on Private networks (Score:4, Funny)
More than once, I've said "Here you are, you get an entire Class A because we think you are so great. Your adresses are 10.x.x.x"
If only (Score:4, Funny)
Reminds me of George Carlin (Score:3, Funny)
Thats the @home Part of the Internet (Score:4, Funny)
enough said.
Priorities (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Unreachable? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:maybe it's because (Score:4, Funny)
I think it's closer to 3%, actually. Slashdot is linking to the other 2%.
My part of the 5% (Score:4, Funny)
How unreachable? (Score:4, Funny)
:^)
5% ? It's a lot more! (Score:3, Funny)
Even worse (Score:3, Funny)