Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

Sun Apr 11 16:38:14 UTC 2010

I'm more inclined to believe that it would be a solar conjunction actually. 
The scenerio would be that they lost track of their bird and started 
tracking the sun. Since we all know that old Sol is an excellant originating 
point of radiated noise, surely with that much noise, and a solid lock on 
it, the odds of its random noise being something decipherable are much more 
acceptable than normal.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs at seastrom.com>
To: "Paul Vixie" <vixie at isc.org>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 9:07 AM
Subject: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)

>
> Paul Vixie <vixie at isc.org> writes:
>
>> i'm more inclined to blame the heavy solar wind this month and to assume
>> that chinanet's routers don't use ECC on the RAM containing their RIBs 
>> and
>> that chinanet's router jockeys are in quite a sweat about this bad 
>> publicity.
>> -- 
>> Paul Vixie
>> KI6YSY
>
> That is likely to be an increasing problem in upcoming months/years.
> Solar cycle 24 started in August '09; we're ramping up on the way out
> of a more serious than usual sunspot minimum.
>
> We've seen great increases in CPU and memory speeds as well as disk
> densities since the last maximum (March 2000).  Speccing ECC memory is
> a reasonable start, but this sort of thing has been a problem in the
> past (anyone remember the Sun UltraSPARC CPUs that had problems last
> time around?) and will no doubt bite us again.
>
> Rob Seastrom, AI4UC
> 