Can someone really destroy the Internet it? It is physically achievable. Internet is a lot of metal, plastic and fiber composition, and its global reach. Want to destroy physically the Internet, we need to cross the oceans and land to find the material basis of the network.
The first step: cut off cable
Internet connection by the tens of thousands of meters of cable. Long submarine cable connecting every continent, so that even the world as a whole. Home computer, office equipment, and a server are connected by these cables with the outside world cut off these connections, the network can not communicate across oceans. Internet will break immediately.
The submarine cable is sometimes disguised, or partially buried, but sometimes as bare as abandoned surfboard on the beach. While many cable and the precise location of their landing sites are not open, but in fact, always seen in some famous and lively coastal towns.
Cable diagram below three points if it is damaged, the consequences will be very serious. A point will only lead to the destruction of deceleration and obstruction, but not completely paralyzed. But the other side of the site will not be immediately connected to many other sites will be too slow to use. The operation of the Internet will become confused and slow.
Several sites connected to the US East Coast and Western Europe, some of the world's most densely critical infrastructure points, destroy these connection points, along with the global economy will collapse.
In addition to these three sites there are some other best places weaken Internet connection: Singapore / Egypt (Mediterranean and Red Sea) / Southwest Region United Kingdom / Tokyo / Hong Kong / South Florida / Sicily / Mumbai / Chennai, destroy these places site, the Internet is no longer a global whole, every continent and islands have been isolated up.
Step two: destroy the root server
Enter the IP domain name is actually a result of the conversion of fields, such as "Google.com" The IP address is 74.125.228.37. But there are thousands of websites, IP addresses are difficult to remember to make the conversion process is indispensable.
Presently there are 13 root name servers, the name was "A" to "M", responsible for IP address of the DNS resolution. These machines allow paralyzed, like the Internet can only record figures.
How to find and destroy these server? Like before cable, these servers is an open secret.
For example, we want to destroy "K" server, which is run by a company called the RIPE NCC. To the company's Web site, and then use Google Maps to find the location of the server. However I want to really make it more difficult to go, how to guard its strict imagined. All of the 13 root server location is searchable.
The third step: the Data Center
After the first cut off the cable, information can no longer pass in the world, it became a seat around the island. Coupled with the destruction of the root servers, network addresses has become a can not resolve the IP address. Destroy the rest of the Internet will step: to blow up the data center.
Data centers are some very humble building, filled with those who allow us to browse websites, send and receive e-mail, chat server game. These buildings are usually very large, because it is not designed to give, so most do not have windows. Those containing the machine room generally very dark, cold and keep the machine running.
60 Hudson Street building in New York City, is an important hub for global Internet: 9th floor of the building 1394 square meters, is local, and the United States to the global convergence of a multilayer fiber optic cable. Servers, data storage, and network devices connected together here, a series of optical interfaces, such as coaxial cable through a series of webs and other communication networks. Like data center it is the physical center of the Internet, saying that is a huge Ethernet switches nature.
If they could damage this layer, connecting the entire region will be broken, worldwide Internet connections will also be affected. Just some of the site itself is erased, some corporate data stored in the data center will disappear, all you upload photos or songs may no longer exist.
Data centers around the world like this a lot, China now has nine hosted data center, there are two Beijing, Shanghai has four, Chengdu, Zhejiang, Shenzhen and one each.
The game is over, and now the rest is some of the local area network, and they are the network, but not the Internet. So far, the Internet has been successfully destroyed, the game ends.
Of course, in reality, no one can simultaneously attack all Internet nodes Earth, even thousands of people a team to implement the plan, the repair rate is very likely to exceed the speed of destruction.
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