can someone please explain this shit to me? https://torrent

>>59536621
>Asking a actual technical question on /g/

>>59536621
bicos its very hard mate

WHYYYYYY???!!?!?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network#List_of_tier_1_networks

My man, you're confusing "backbone" with "backup". A backbone is the main routing path, not something that can be "routed around".

>>59536621
I think it routes around if somebody else owns (has registered) the block with IANA. If instead of forwarding to the next hop I null routed the traffic without removing the advertisement to my BGP peers that I had a route I think it would basically screw the traffic. If I used a really low metric I peers would prefer my route (to nowhere).

This is a good question and I'm interested. Article was very sparse.

>>59536732

if a central governing body like IANA can block IP addresses, doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of the internet being a decentralized network?

>>59536911
This isn't 1995 anymore. The vast majority of the web is centralized. There's a few key points that basically all traffic get routed through these days. Also look at AWS, they host half of the internets.

Your question is: Why can't the router that's dropping packets just refer you to a different route?
That would defeat the purpose of blocking it, wouldn't it.. lol

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>>59536943

> The vast majority of the web is centralized

this statement strains credulity

>>59537008

no, the question is: if a router (in this case a bunch of routers in the Cogent network) are dropping packets, why are the packets not following alternate routes and avoiding the malicious routers

>>59537125
it's like they are burning the packets with gasoline and a blowtorch

the packets get eaten. the backbone is like "okay stop" and the packets listen.
if the router was like "o, hey I'm broken" then the packets would re-route, but this backbone router is acting maliciously.

>>59537099
How exactly? You think you have a cable running directly from your computer to every other computer on the internet? You're connected to your ISP.

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>>59537201

>centralized

i don't think this word means what you think it means

>>59536943
>>59537201
That's not what "centralized" means.
You're talking about "decentralized.