Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
by ip26 on Friday November 26, 2021 @03:36PM
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If by “remove a few hubs” you mean level a few major colo’s then ok, but as far as I can tell there is not any single strand of glass or single switch or single server that can take everything down with it.
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
by dylan604 on Friday November 26, 2021 @04:14PM
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You don't need to level the colos, you just need someone to make a typo in a router config that gets deployed live so the whole colo is unreachable. How many times have we seen an AWS/CloudFlare/otherLargeProvider have this happen to them?
Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
by toast0 on Friday November 26, 2021 @03:43PM
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The DNS root is pretty well distributed. There's 13 different IPs run by several different organizations, and AFAIK they're all running anycast these days. And anyway, the root zone is tiny, changes infrequently and could really be AXFRed a couple times a month and you wouldn't miss much.
The larger tlds aren't quite as diversely hosted and certainly aren't amenable to long term caching, but it should take a major f up to break those too.
Some of the minor tlds, even the more popular ones do screw up from time to time though.
Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
by throw0101a on Friday November 26, 2021 @04:53PM
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> As of 11/26/2021 10:53 p.m., the root server system consists of 1477 instances operated by the 12 independent root server operators.