Research Reveals Internet "Black Holes"

Sometimes you try to reach a site and mysteriously you can’t get to it. Perhaps you think its simply your imagination, something wrong with your computer, or perhaps the site is under attack. Or maybe the server that the site is hosted on went down.

However, the cause could be far more mysterious. With the massive amount of users trafficing the internet today, weird things are bound to happen, but about the strangest perhaps is the recently discovered, but long suspected phenomena of internet “black holes.”

Traffic is unintentionally routed into these holes at times, forever lost, even though a working path existed between the sending computer and receiving computer.
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