Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)
pages.cs.wisc.edu68 points by walrus01 7 hours ago
68 points by walrus01 7 hours ago
> Are incidents such as this a likely side-effect of ubiquitous, low-cost, perhaps even disposable Internet hosts?
This is likely being discussed because it's relevant to this similar modern day story involving Tesla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686766
It struck me how much more useful information the graphs and diagrams here provide over their flashier counterparts you commonly see today.
The old-fashioned aesthetic almost feels like a cue what I'm looking at won't be slop.
Some of these charts are made using rrdtool:
https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/
rrdtool is still used widely today by projects like Munin, LibreNMS and Collectd.
ISP operations/back-end systems perspective, there's indeed tons of RRA files out there still getting charts drawn based off them with rrdtool, but increasingly everyone is trying to store metrics in things like influxdb and draw them using grafana. Or similar. Even Cacti, a truly old and crufty thing that's been around for a long time has migrated to drawing charts as SVGs.
I yearn for the simplicity of rrdtool and Cacti and all that.
I despise trying to setup Grafana with its constant moving goals.
Don't worry, I'm sure we can teach a slop generator how to emulate this style. LLMs already know how to use rrttool and mrtg! Coming soon to an Internet near you, faux-historical slop writeups.
The talk he gave at Usenix LISA was one of the best ever!
(LISA is now SRECon)