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Right... I agree from a technical standpoint The explanation is not plausable. If you understand how the internet works and it's architecture. It's a star network... In other words there are multiple paths to any given destination.. so it would only go down for seconds and then it would heal itself. This article or explanation isn't holding technical water...
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They are talking about the BGP protocol. One fuck-up can cause this exact issue and it is slow to propagate. Look into BGP if you are not familiar. Its a surprisingly simple and flawed protocol that relies on peer's to just trust each other for updates without much verification.
I think it was Iran that did something like this ~6-8 years ago to try to ban youtube.. Instead they ended up ddosing their entire country out of the internet because they updated an external route for youtube and ended up routing the entire worlds traffic for the company through their pipes...
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[–] Fateswebb ago
Right... I agree from a technical standpoint The explanation is not plausable. If you understand how the internet works and it's architecture. It's a star network... In other words there are multiple paths to any given destination.. so it would only go down for seconds and then it would heal itself. This article or explanation isn't holding technical water...
[–] level_101 ago
They are talking about the BGP protocol. One fuck-up can cause this exact issue and it is slow to propagate. Look into BGP if you are not familiar. Its a surprisingly simple and flawed protocol that relies on peer's to just trust each other for updates without much verification.
I think it was Iran that did something like this ~6-8 years ago to try to ban youtube.. Instead they ended up ddosing their entire country out of the internet because they updated an external route for youtube and ended up routing the entire worlds traffic for the company through their pipes...
[–] Fateswebb 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah uh... Nope.. that was pakistan not Iran..