lostmyhouseski
Well-Known Member
October
lostmyhouseski said:October
angleseyblue said:until someone types 'google' into a google search. DONT DO IT!!!!!!
bizzbo said:the 'net', as opposed to the world-wide-web is a self-organising, adaptive, decentralised, resilient system. any fule kno it was designed by the military to cope with a nuclear strike. you can attack one part of it and the rest carries on as per.
the only problem as such is that when a key route physically fails, people keep hitting retry, clogging the network up even more, and the routers need that bandwidth to be able to talk to each other in order to redesign the network, and adapt to the problem. that's why it sometimes takes a while to get back on it's feet....but it always does recover, no matter what you throw at it.
bot-nets and so forth are powerful enough to disrupt the servers for a company like ebay but not the infrastructure of the net itself.
how on earth anyone proposes to 'subvert' DNS is beyond me. it's a decentralised system, you'd have to reach critical mass and con millions of routers simultaneously, instantly, or you'd get nowhere.
it's comforting to know that the routers are designed so that they can only be reconfigured at a fundamental level, by someone sitting in front of the box and plugging a keyboard in. basically, the internet will likely be here longer than any of us, nuclear war notwithstanding.