[Outages-discussion] [outages] UK wide DSL broadband outages

[Florian Weimer]

* Joseph Burford:

>> Because BT's RADIUS servers which look at the realm of the login and route the
>> session to the correct ISP are unable to cope with the load of all the ADSL
>> users in the country continually reconnecting during an outage like this.
>
> What a horribly broken way to offer a wholesale service to other ISPs.

What's the alternative?

If you implement randomized exponential back-off in the CPE (which some
do), this approach isn't too bad.

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