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Network collapses
From: mark () vielle datasys net (Mark R. Lindsey)
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 15:17:46 -0400
If a large network with large amounts of nonportable space, like UUNET, were to fail entirely (financially, or system-wide, e.g.), what would happen to the address space that that network had assigned to its customers? When those customers go elsewhere for access, would the routing tables be flooded with /24's? Alternately, would that space be reclaimed by the registries, and all of those customers be forced to renumber? How long would that take? In a similar vein, how would the DNS act with millions more lame delegations? (And what if all of the root servers were smurfed under at the same time? ;^) If this has been discussed elsewhere, I apologize for the bother, and would appreciate a pointer to that discussion. --- Mark R. Lindsey, mark () datasys net Internet Engineering, DSS Online, LLC Voice: 912.241.0607; Fax: 912.241.0190 (Wish I were there.)
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