System 7 - Extension that shows internet connection status

[cheesestraws]

The Internet doesn't really have a concept of "being connected to the Internet" -- you can check route and quality of connection to host, and with some specialized code and hardware can query BGP tables and do large volumes of traceroutes to map existing connectivity, but that's all going to change from moment to moment.

Yes, quite. I wrangle BGP for a relatively large chunk of the DFZ for a living. It's interesting. :-D

 

[luRaichu]

Yes, quite. I wrangle BGP for a relatively large chunk of the DFZ for a living. It's interesting. :-D

Duty-Free Zone? You mean like at an AirPort?

 

[cheesestraws]

Duty-Free Zone

the default-free zone, the set of routers that do not have a default route, but learn all Internet routes via BGP.

 

[CC_333]

I wrangle BGP for a relatively large chunk of the DFZ for a living.

It sounds like a highly technical, but rather obscure and unknown corner of the Internet infrastructure, without which the entirety of the Internet might break.

c

 

[cheesestraws]

It sounds like a highly technical, but rather obscure and unknown corner of the Internet infrastructure, without which the entirety of the Internet might break.

Obscure and unknown but, yeah. I will not say who I work for - though it is trivial to find out - but I worked out today that probably every single day my code steers at least one tcp connection from every single person I have ever known or met, the ones I have forgotten and the ones who have forgotten me alike. I cannot tell you how weird that feeling is.

Unless they've gone completely off-grid of course. Or are dead, which is the offest of all grids.

 

[CC_333]

Or are dead, which is the offest of all grids.

And most permanent; A person can usually choose to return to most other grids in life, but not this one.

c