Iran goes off-net -- Something bigger going on here?

*warning conspiracy theory alert*

*puts on tin foil hat and heads to bunker*

well if they are stupid enough to be so reliant on only a few cables that's their problem, then again i have no idea how few cables we actually use.

it reminds me of the movie independance day, when the aliens destroy the communicatons satellites prior to invasion.

Just been reading some more about this on the Amazon politics forum..

Interesting... Just think that means the US now has full control over all the traffic in and out of Iran.

Edit - Edited to show this was a quote from another source.

This ain't new ... the US has always had the 13 root servers located here. Hell, we invented the net and are going to keep it.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver ...

You may be right now that the Anycast network addressing and routing scheme is employed - seems all is lost now ...

"You may be right now"

Now and always.

"the latter controlling the 13 primary routers"

The DNS servers aren't routers anyway. They supply routing info to routers. Hardly surprising VM got rid of the chimp.

How very dare you imply Tom is of the same high grade blood stock as the Chimp.

Interesting.

Nor power..

One of these days me and Mugz will have our finger nails falling off like that comment in Endless Summer 2 but can only look at it during the day...

On sober reflection, things are so messed up here that I doubt anyone would want to invade, oil or no oil.

Don't mind me.

Me to.. To the point where I think I'm frankly wrong on this one. I read the post again and I think it sent me on the wrong direction. My thinking was that this is a physical layer issue in that there really was no bit of string and therefore there must have been changes to the physical routing, however as you point out the 13 'routers' are most probably a reference to the name servers and not routers. I stand corrected and should be more open to admitting there is far to much computing that I'm not up to date on nowadays.

I'll also shock the audience by saying that the more I read on this one the more I think the first two lines were most probably very much accidental cuts. I've read the shipping information for the area and the reason for moving the moorings was to cope with a force 7 storm in the area. The shipping authorities moved the moorings to compensate and keep shipping safe. The storm caused the boats to drag ankers and hence cut the lines. The Iran cut though does not fit this pattern.

The dinner party we had here on Saturday night was interesting as one of the folks that came was from Iran. Given some of the things we talked about I have to say I came to the conclusion that Internet access is the least of the worries those folks have. A friend she knows through the Persian community over here recently lost 12 members of her family spread over 3 generations as a result of a bombing in Iran. A timely reminder that these political discussions are really about real people and real suffering.

Its part of a bigger thing for me at the moment Tom - I'm having to face up to the fact that I've been trying to live of past knowledge and glories for far to long. I still describe myself as the 'IT Guy' despite not having worked in serious IT for a good 8 years - NTL does not count as serious IT.

In the past month I have found myself totally stumped with a couple of things I've been trying to set up for myself and family members. My brother is currently off-net as I just can not get the fcuking thing going no matter how big a hammer I use on it... I guess you could call it the Techno-Jitters.

It's not a good thing to be going on in my head when I'm supposed to be applying for jobs..

It's a personal satisfaction and identity thing. I'd take no joy from earning a crust that way. I just no longer find myself drawn to computers like I did. When I think back to my placement year and that fire I had in my belly to learn and grow with the subject it makes me see the dying embers that remain.

Maybe it is time for a total change, a total retrain and maybe even something of a change of image. It's all up for change at the minute.

Have you ever considered accountancy?

I give Tom permission to shoot me should I ever stoop that low.

Go into industrial engineering. It's very technical, and the pay is good.

More importantly, just because the knowledge is 5 years old doesn't necessarily mean it's out of date.

Does that mean there's hope yet for his little black book?

It's not affected me at all, Stella production is completely unaffected.

Chin up chimp, no problem admitting you can't do something. Oh and about that internet thing, if for some reason it ain't working, do as i did and just buy an all in one modem/router, nice and easy. Instead of spending a few days cursing and swearing trying to get a replacement router working with a modem.

Where France goes the US follows?

@Tom - Black book??? +5 Giving me more credit than is due bonus. Try back of a rizla packet and you would be closer to the mark.

@Stranger - Already on a combined modem router Also my most helpfull brother has now lost the account information that I wrote out for him should we ever need to set it up again - fcukwit and he knows it. The folks are on a nice wired router with a WAP54G as an AP. It DID work untill he let that fcuking Vista box in the house...

@Mugz - Did look at doing EE when I was back at school and first setting out. I think what would count against me on that one is that I dropped A level (16-18yr education) physics. I am looking at things that might be classed as technical but not pure IT.

@Puck - Hang in there fella... I may be having a couple of bad days but at least I'm not getting shot at!!

I guess the PC must have heard me talking yesterday as about 15 minutes after my last post I suffered a catastophic HDD failure. Fortunately I had a local backup of /home and I've now got the system back to 98% of where it was with no loss of personal data. I've still just got a few bits to setup but I'll do those as and when I come to them.

* BLINKS *

Any chance you could link the source on that quote as I'd like to have read of the full article. I've lost the one to the shipping information as it was burried in the middle of the /. discussion and I can't find the darn thing.