Matthew Kaufman wrote:
James Jun wrote:
As much as we blame Cogent and Sprint for breaking the internet, I also have no sympathy for individual single-homed downstream customers on either networks. If you are complaining about Sprint<->Cogent depeering and have customers demanding for your mission-critical services, then you are just as negligent to not have multihomed before all of this happened. ...
Ah yes, I suspect we can get all the network operators here to agree that any customer of another ISP should buy a second connection "just in case". Maybe this breakage will turn out to be the best way for everyone to double their customer base overnight.
I have a probably dumb question. Even if a company were of large enough wallet to have, say, a single redundant connection, how could it evaluate the partition problem in order to choose the "best" connection (where "best" is a function of overall connectivity, say) ? It seems to me that that's a really, really hard problem. And surely isn't a static one-off kind of calculation, right? Mike