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February 2, 2007
Thoughtfactory is experiencing severe download problems. A cable was cut in Atlanta, US, yesterday and that was a main route to Hosting Matters--my hosting company---in Florida. So the site was down for most of the day. Hosting Matters says on its Emergency Forum that:
We are currently seeing Level3/WCG timeouts in multiple locations that are preventing requests from reaching the network. This is also affecting the remote monitor, which will show multiple servers down although they are not in fact down....it is indeed confirmed to be dropped routing. Based on the explanations we have received thus far, it appears that an OC3 was taken out by one provider, and with that maintenance, numerous routes were dropped at the same time. Those routes are being rebuilt/readvertised at this time and we hope things will return to normal shortly based on that activity....From Peak10, Telcove has had a major fiber cut in Atlanta, and our Level 3 Circuit is carried over the Telcove line. Telcove technicians are onsite trying to repair the cut right now...the crews are working on it. The word has come down that a couple of other providers also experienced cuts.... the last update we have is that the new fiber has been pulled, is in place, and the splicing process is beginning. They were unable to give us an estimate of how long this will take,
We are back online today but I cannot upload any images or files from my computer. I'm not sure why. Presumably it is something to do with the event of dropped routing in the US.
And there you go. An accident in Atlanta affects people in Adelaide and Florida. That's how internal relations in a network work. I recal this doctine being dismissed in terms of the butterfly fluttering in China going to have a major impact on the logic of what I choose for breakfast today. But no serious supporter of internal relations would hold that.
The dropped routes indicates that the world is not composed of many distinct, independent entities, each of which can be considered in isolation from its relations to other things.The stress on internal relations is to correct the atomistic and dualistic tendency to view parts as being non-integrated and separate from the whole of which they are parts. It also indicates how we have a network of flows or processes and not just things, relations and qualities.
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