Does anyone else have the thought that maybe it's time to just replace these 30+ year old ancient protocols? Seems like the entire networking stack is held together with string and duct tape and unnecessarily complicated.

A lot of the decisions made sense somewhat in the 80s and 90s, but seems ridiculous in this day and age lmao

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I may be waaaay off here, but the internet as it exists is pretty much built on DNS, isn't it? I mean, the whole idea of DARPANet back in the 60s and 70s was to build a robust, redundant, and self-healing network to survive nuclear armageddon, and except when humans f it up (intentional or otherwise), it generally does what it says on the tin.

Now, there's arguments to beade about securing the protocol, but to rip and replace the routing protocols, I think you'd have to call it something other than the Internet.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

Making a typo in the BGP config is the internet's version of nuclear Armageddon

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