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Makes you think if DARPA's "Internet" project succeeded or failed in making a resilient, attack-resistant network
by buboard 7y ago
Makes you think if DARPA's "Internet" project succeeded or failed in making a resilient, attack-resistant network
- walrus01 7y agoThe Iranian government forces all ISPs in the country to singlehomed to and be downstream of DCI, the government run ASN. If you don't do this, you don't get an international transit connection, and men with guns come to take your routers and arrest you .
- PostOnce 7y agoIf Iran goes offline, all the connections that would have routed through it now route around it, so the internet is resilient. i.e. it's resilient for all of Iran's neighbors who will be unaffected.
- magicsmoke 7y agoThe network was designed to be resilient and continue existing even if the individual nodes are brittle. Iran taking their nodes offline doesn't destroy the entire internet.
- saagarjha 7y agoSo it's possible to eclipse part of the network.
- PostOnce 7y agoThat was the point (in the DARPA context of this thread) -- nuke takes out a city, network still functions and routes around it. So signals are still getting from SAC to DC or whatever.
- tanilama 7y agoNot that DARPA failed. New countermeasures will always emerge, you cant predict the future.
- gruez 7y ago>making a resilient, attack-resistant network I'm curious how you can be resistant against a entity with a monopoly on violence.
- lez 7y agoI guess our lesson here is to invest in mesh networking and services that work over it, before it's too late.