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No, because if the offender didn't stop misbehaving they'd find themselves disconnected from the Internet completely.
by jgrahamc 11y ago
No, because if the offender didn't stop misbehaving they'd find themselves disconnected from the Internet completely.
- davidbarker 11y agoAaah, OK. Thanks.
- larrys 11y ago"disconnected from the Internet completely". Perhaps a blog post on exactly how that is done. And after what particular time would that happen and is that something that needs to be coordinated or??
- lightbritefight 11y agoIf there is a rogue actor on the internet, even at a large scale, the rest of the Internet blackholes their traffic, and treats them as a failure point. Various routing tables are updated across the internet to not consider them a viable destination or source, and traffic normalizes without them connected. It isn't the action of one central authority, more a natural response to failure by separate parts of the internet.Its akin to shoppers and suppliers refusing to go to a particular store anymore. No one shuts the store down, but it no longer has products or customers.