9 Jul
1996
9 Jul
'96
2:29 p.m.
In message <9607090242.AA06197@wisdom.home.vix.com>, Paul A Vixie writes:
OK. So what if somebody is currently planning a ping battle on the global Internet, kind of like corewars in the netwrk. Then what? Do the NSP's all roll over and play dead?
Sounds sort of like the day they put Peter Gabriel on MBONE.
Actually it was much worse when the Washington DC IETF was on the mbone in December of 1993 (the NSS was/is fine in this regard, though in 1993 the routing software had a very rough time with the high level of route flap). At that time mrouted's method of tunnelling was changed to avoid the problem. Curtis