rahvin112
join:2002-05-24
Sandy, UT
| reply to pnh102
Re: Great!
For all you paranoid that some country is going to do this to shutdown sites they disagree with, consider for a moment that it won't take very many phone calls to you ISP before they and the backbone operators blacklist the entire netblock for the country in question.
So if they want to shut down some site they can accomplish it for a short period, but afterwards the entire country or ISP responsible will be suddenly without routeable internet addresses and all the citizens could access would be in the country that tried this tactic. Given the seriousness of poisoning the IP stack it wouldn't be long before ARIN acted to permanently revoke the IP addresses of the offending computers and it would likely be a long time before said country could route to much of the rest of the world as each ISP would have to take down their blacklisting. |
