Network collapses

Sun Jun 7 19:17:46 UTC 1998

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.

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Mark R. Lindsey, mark at datasys.net
Internet Engineering, DSS Online, LLC
Voice: 912.241.0607; Fax: 912.241.0190

(Wish I were there.)