512K Day - Internet Hiccups - You Are Not Alone
The issues with connectivities to certain computers and servers does not affect only everyday users but also major businesses, especially those primarily relying their business on the cloud servers, cloud storage, and SaaS/PaaS solutions. With the introduction of cloud computing, total number of IP addresses has grown every month ever since. From Wiki: 512K Day is the unofficial title of an event that occurred on August 12, 2014. Multiple Internet routers , manufactured by Cisco and other vendors, encountered a default software limit of "512K" (actually 2^19 ) IPv4 BGP routing table entries, causing assorted outages at various data centers . Various IT professionals reported the issue on Internet forums , sometimes as just " 512K ", and under a Twitter hashtag of #512k . Quote from Reddit: BGP is the backbone of the internet and the internets just got fat enough for the backbone to start cracking. Here's ...