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"What does the browser do, to "route around damage"?" Browser doesn't - user does.
by guard-of-terra 13y ago
"What does the browser do, to "route around damage"?"
Browser doesn't - user does.
- anigbrowl 13y agoThe user isn't part of the internet, unless it's someone with a cranial implant of some sort (surely coming soon...). The phrase originally referred to protocols like TCP/IP and SMTP that used relays and packet forwarding to cope with the fact that any given set of servers might be disabled. In this respect Bittorrent is much closer to the original conception than HTTP.
- waps 13y agoI think you'll find that people mean the BGP protocol when they say the internet routes around damage. While this is true, it doesn't route around firewalls forcibly installed around a country by it's government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol Also, I'd contend this is not really true in practice. While BGP does repair some faults, what happens in reality is that ISP engineers route around damage. BGP itself might keep reachability intact, but any error will still lead to massive capacity loss. This is then repaired by NOCs around the world. That's what really keeps the internet rolling.