They are connected by other nodes to the Root Servers
Even if you are your own server / ISP
You connect to the Root Servers by way of more central nodes
Take out the Root Servers and you amputate the daughter nodes to those servers.
Posted on 12/14/2013 9:44:32 AM PST by knarf
“Is there a way to protect internetconnect.com, 123 Main St., somewhere in the USA with patriots and machine guns and stuff?”
Yes, but your fictional company connects to the “backbone” of the internet through which all traffic travels. If the backbone is shut down it doesn’t matter if you have an ISP or not.
Yep, if you run your own pbx. Downside is you can only call other phone lines within the PBX and not make outside calls.
/johnny
An ISP provides Virtual or physical access to the world wide web. Virtual is like someone reselling another ISP’s service without their own infrastructure. Physical means you build your own infrastructure to access the world wide web. Anyone can be their own ISP but any and all ISPs can be blocked access and the world wide web can be shut down in fairly short order. That is the Reader’s Digest version.
lol. That, and Randy abusing his quota in camp for porn surfing.
All ISPs buy access to the backbone via a larger bandwidth supplier, called a Tier One supplier. Current Tier 1 carriers include Level 3 Communications, CenturyLink, Vodafone, Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T Corporation. So you can see at this level it’s impossible to guarantee access to one ISP, since he’s likely only connected (indirectly or directly) to one Tier One, who can cut him off at any time.
When Obama has asked for an “internet kill switch”, that would be a way of cutting off all the Tier Ones with one act. Summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_kill_switch
The latest I see is that DHS is being forced to at least provide some level of visibilitly into the “kill switch” by the courts: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/13/homeland-security-must-disclose-internet-kill-swit/
This is the official story of course. Many insiders believe the capacity for a kill switch already exists and simply is hidden under the cloak of “national security”.
But there are probably any number of ways to force a Tier One to shut off one or many ISPs or portions of their network for any reason they dream up.
If you use a Linux computer with MAC address spoofing on a public wifi network, you are almost impossible to track. But you may be committing a crime.
Note that MAC stands for Media Access Control, not Macintosh.
yep
Even if you are your own server / ISP
You connect to the Root Servers by way of more central nodes
Take out the Root Servers and you amputate the daughter nodes to those servers.
THAT was the kind of information I was looking for.
I'd have skipped right past yelling out the window, with a chuckle.
Very good definition.
That would be a private network, not really internet. Internet is a network of networks.
Think of this: a company in NYC has a network in it’s office, a company in Sydney has a network in it’s office, these networks each connect to an ISP which is interconnected with other ISPs around the world, e-mail and so forth goes between NCY and Sydney by traversing these networked ISPs. That’s internet, a network of networks.
I remember 9600 baud modems and Comp-U-Serve BBS in 1987-88.
They can shut you down remotely with a few key strokes.
Well ... in reading that ... I can assure you, 99.99% have been discouraged from that route ... :-) ...
Can be shut down with a few keystrokes
96 was the new stuff ;)
You asked, “If The ISP’s are taken by the government, is there a way to use computers and the internet ?”
Yeah, by using the existing ISPs. Bottom line is — ISPs are the only way you’re getting connected to the Internet.
Thanx for an informative trip.
Heck, I even remember DOS2. (((creak)))
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