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Originally posted by Mr Tranny
In the battlefield, lines of communication are worth their weight in gold, no mater how thin and fragile they are.
Situational awareness is paramount.
Access to information is always top priority, any way you can find it.
Without it, a solder or civilian is def, dumb, and blind.
Originally posted by grey580
However if you specify a port as well as a header then that port can be used to access the website.
So www.website.com becomes 96.84.128.53:9001
If website owners did that and had people bookmark that address DNS outages wouldn't be an issue.
Originally posted by OptimusSubprime
If the "Fallout Shelter" is a link on the main ATS website, then how would one go about clicking it if they can't get to the main site because of a DNS issue in the first place?
Anyway, if "someone" wanted to take down the internet on a large scale, I would contend that "they" would do it through rouiting (BGP protocol) and not DNS servers. Kill the routers... kill the internet. Kill DNS... people will figure out a way around it.
Originally posted by Mr Tranny
Originally posted by OptimusSubprime
If the "Fallout Shelter" is a link on the main ATS website, then how would one go about clicking it if they can't get to the main site because of a DNS issue in the first place?
Anyway, if "someone" wanted to take down the internet on a large scale, I would contend that "they" would do it through rouiting (BGP protocol) and not DNS servers. Kill the routers... kill the internet. Kill DNS... people will figure out a way around it.
The fallout shelter would be a basic forum, which would include a link to the normal site. You could use the forum, or you could click the link to the normal DNS based domain to take you to the normal site. The link is for people that wanted to go to the main site, but accidentally ended up in the fallout shelter. Basically an “exit” sign.
There is a big reason why a government will go after the DNS, and not the routing protocols. The internet is also the heart of the government communications infrastructure. If they went after routing, they would break it for everyone, including themselves. On the other hand, going after public DNS, they can disable it for 99 percent of the population, but still retain use of it for their own communications needs. The number of people that will be able to figure out how to get to primary information sites to communicate in such a short order will be such a small portion of the population that they would be negligible.
edit on 7-3-2013 by Mr Tranny because: (no reason given)