ip: INTERNET BROWNOUT from edupage

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

INTERNET BROWNOUT
Internet traffic slowed to a crawl for three hours on September 4th after a
new Sprint customer in Japan broadcast a message intended for the entire
Internet community.  Users waited 40 minutes or more to get into some Web
sites.  Network consultant Daniel Briere said:  "Carriers and Internet
service providers are selling users higher and higher speed links to the
Internet, which means that there could be more -- and more damaging --
brownouts... Users are running video and other multicast-based applications
that chow down on capacity." (Computerworld 11 Sep 95 p1)