Enterprise routing sinkholes using Linux and open source tools
Eric Sorenson · ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE · 2006
Occasionally you'll see them on the evening news or a photoblog�a previously forgotten septic tank or abandoned sewer line has opened up and swallowed somebody�s Volkswagen, and the puzzled owner is standing above his submerged car scratching his head. They�re called sinkholes, and the photos are amusing precisely because it�s happening to somebody else. So why would you, a sophisticated system and network administrator, want to inflict one on your enterprise?