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    Can the Internet survive a war?

    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.
    Last edited by GreyGeek; Oct 21, 2016, 05:56 PM.
    "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
    – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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    Aaaa memories ,,,,,,,,,,,,, until about 4 years ago I had in some stacks of floppy disks mom had brought home from work as trash to be formated and reused,,, the installation disks for the TCP/IP stack for the DOD's computers from the 80's-90 era .

    now ,,,,,probably a land fill some where.

    VINNY
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