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If 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 Ir
by PostOnce 7y ago
If 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.