Today, a DDoS attack on Dyn, a major DNS hub, brought much of the Eastern and midWest Internet down. Without the servers to link a domain name to an IP address most browsers just spin their pixels.
Our Internet evolved from a DARPA network scheme that was designed to allow communications to survive a nuclear war that might take out major cities, using the theory that the web of the Internet is so persuasive that an IP packet will find a way around disconnected server.
The Dyn attack involved millions (?) of zombies from botfarms flooding Dyn with various requests, bringing its serving activities to a halt. The same thing would have been the result if some radical group blew up the building (or the cable system/junction feeding the building), or a nuclear bomb destroyed the city Dyn is in. So, just how survivable is the Internet? Probably a lot, using ARP.
I have a list of domain names and IP addresses of sites that are important to me. I put them into /ect/hosts using the following forma
IP Domain
w.x.y.z. somedomainname
etc...
It may not work on every IP address because of configurations of the server, but it works on most.
I haven't tried it on IPv6 sites yet.
Our Internet evolved from a DARPA network scheme that was designed to allow communications to survive a nuclear war that might take out major cities, using the theory that the web of the Internet is so persuasive that an IP packet will find a way around disconnected server.
The Dyn attack involved millions (?) of zombies from botfarms flooding Dyn with various requests, bringing its serving activities to a halt. The same thing would have been the result if some radical group blew up the building (or the cable system/junction feeding the building), or a nuclear bomb destroyed the city Dyn is in. So, just how survivable is the Internet? Probably a lot, using ARP.
I have a list of domain names and IP addresses of sites that are important to me. I put them into /ect/hosts using the following forma
IP Domain
w.x.y.z. somedomainname
etc...
It may not work on every IP address because of configurations of the server, but it works on most.
I haven't tried it on IPv6 sites yet.
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