Internet Black Hole

[paul]

"Having trouble accessing a favorite Web site? Perhaps the web site hosting was taken offline, or the computer hosting it is down for maintenance. However, the cause could be something more mysterious. At any given moment, a portion of Internet traffic ends up being routed into information "black holes."

Hubble: Monitoring Internet Reachability in Real-Time; hubble.cs.washington.edu/

[eUKhost.com]

If there is such Internet Black hole then you won't get any sort of response when you ping or traceroute any such blackholed website hostings. I don't think such concept can occur in online world as system failure can block data flow, but there's nothing which will eat your data.

[paul]

Yea, that's correct, however some of the data mentioned on hubble web site hosting are interesting. I guess Black holes could be a secret project for censorship for which some countries might be working on under US flagship.

[WelshTom]

Hmm.... I don't think a "black hole" exists

Although I wont doubt you that a few data packets sometimes "have accidents" along their journey - but with TCP, they simply get quickly re-transmitted, and you probably wont notice any difference.

[paul]

Originally Posted by WelshTom

Hmm.... I don't think a "black hole" exists

Although I wont doubt you that a few data packets sometimes "have accidents" along their journey - but with TCP, they simply get quickly re-transmitted, and you probably wont notice any difference.

Well even though some have experienced however very rarely, the data packet some time comprising while sending a plurality of compressed data packets from a first network entity to a second network entity and deliver duplicate acknowledgment messages. If there is no black hole, I guess there would be certainly a "pink hole" which compromise the data packet somewhere in the journey.