[LINK] DNS outage?

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:24 PM 28/07/2009, Paul Brooks you wrote:
>Road traffic needs out-of-band notification, as it has no inherent
>in-band rerouting mechanism - drivers unaware of a problem will continue
>to drive into the trouble zone.
>The Internet has BGP-4.

What ever happened to the Internet rerouting itself so it 'can't be 
broken'? Or was that always a myth? I thought its resilience was one 
of its big selling points.

Jan



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