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Quake cuts off much of Asia Internet
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:38:21 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net> Date: December 28, 2006 10:10:45 AM EST To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com Subject: Re: [IP] Quake cuts off much of Asia Internet At 02:21 PM 12/27/2006, Richard Forno wrote:
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Taiwan on Tuesday night, which was followed by several smaller quakes in the region, apparently damaged thevast network of underwater cables that enables modern communication."The Internet capacity in Taiwan is about 40 percent now, so the service isjammed," said a spokesman for Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest phone company on Tuesday.The disruption was widespread, hitting China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and elsewhere, with knock-on effects as far away as Australia for companies whose Internet is routed through affected areas.
Dave: IPers might be interested in knowing that, as a result of this slowdown, we have already seen a noticeable decrease in the amount of spam we've received -- much of which originates in Taiwan, China, and South Korea. (The flow of spam from South America, Poland, Germany, Italy, and American "zombie" machines -- the latter mostly on cable modems and Verizon DSL or FIOS -- has, alas, continued unabated. But the impact is still significant.) Because more than 95% of the traffic we receive from the Asia-Pacificregion is spam, it occurs to me that if these countries made an effort to
limit the amount of spam they generated, it might ameliorate or even eliminate the slowdown while the fiber optic cables were repaired. --Brett Glass, LARIAT.NET ------------------------------------------- <HR> You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org<BR>To manage your subscription, go to<BR> <A HREF="http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip">http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip</A><P>Archives at: <A HREF="http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/intere Archives: [LIST_ARCHIVES_URL] Modify Your Subscription: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=1788750&user_secret=2262158c Unsubscribe: http://v2.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?id=1788750-2262158c-20jmriji Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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