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Would it be possible to shut down the internet, and how could that be done? (lemy.lol)

submitted 11 months ago by godfish@lemy.lol to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Very theoretical question.

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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

It might die slowly if you take down all root dns servers and keep them off long enough.

Maybe if you disturb BGP between isp's enough

but I can't see how either can be done, it's quite resilliant