RE: [tlug] What would happen to the Internet if the US fell off themap

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tlug-bounces@example.com [mailto:tlug-bounces@example.com On 
> Behalf Of Josh Glover
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:14 PM
> To: Tokyo Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [tlug] What would happen to the Internet if the 
> US fell off themap
> 
> 
Summarizing a few points, and pointing out a thing or two.

The BIG companies that have half a brain or more will be
fine.  They all have large scale centers in at least three
countries.  (This has been pointed out a few times).

The internets within specific countries are pretty good
generally at routing traffic within that country.  The
few rare exceptions are a third world country or three
that has all their internet services piggy backing off
of that of a larger nation (Usually the US or France).

International communications might be slowed down a
bit, but as soon as the call centers started going 
down, the sysadmins and the telco guys would be on
the job post haste.  Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is
going to slow down their porn downloads by more than a
few hours. :P

Another biggy, DNS propogates.  That is why the system
works as well as it does.  A computer does not have to
query 5000 DNS servers to find the propper IP address
for a domain name, because the servers all share info
while they are active.  Yes, the US going dark would
cause DNS hell for a couple of hours, or maybe even
days, but the bulk of the data needed to keep people
accessing the sites they normally go to (other than US
sites of course) would still be there.  A lot of ISP's
cache static data too. :P