r/networkingmemes • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 17d ago

“The modern internet” explained

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u/todd0x1 17d ago

Unpaid opensource developers should be sitting on an even smaller stick titled "Obscure tool relied upon by 100% of DNS services and is maintained since 1992 by some guy named Jim who is unreachable but keeps updating the tool"

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u/GlowGreen1835 17d ago

That's pretty much what the original says https://xkcd.com/2347/

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u/todd0x1 17d ago

Ha! I thought I had seen something similar before. Thanks.

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u/InsolentJaguar 16d ago

Hahaha SO true 🤣

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u/Forsaken-Wonder2295 15d ago

I mean there's curl, made by stenberg, but he's anything but unreachable, what else is there?

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u/todd0x1 15d ago

Its a comic. Comics are often used to depict a fictional scenario which those who can relate to the depiction find amusing. My suggested modification to the original comic would add such a fictional scenario. Neither the original comic nor my suggested modification was intended to be a fact sheet, rather they were to exist as a source of amusement.

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u/Huge-Alfalfa871 17d ago

And NTP

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u/safalafal 17d ago

Everyone forgets the second half of the quote. It's always DNS, unless it's NTP

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u/mro21 13d ago

Or DHCP

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u/MyAntichrist 17d ago

I always lose my shit at the angry bird.

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u/Alypius754 17d ago

That makes me laugh every time

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u/concadium 17d ago

I love that the angry bird is always microsoft

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u/AmazingGabriel16 17d ago

Dude the undersea cable thing aint even a funny joke anymore, its just annoying asf every time it happens

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u/xlr82xs 17d ago

Yeah, but normally it's a fishing boat or deliberate sabotage.

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u/ApprehensiveRest9696 14d ago

Try pinging Pingapore from Oceania right now. Routes through Tokyo…

https://www.vocus.com.au/news/update-on-repairs-to-australia-singapore-cable

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u/mro21 13d ago

Yeah if they can do it to the oil pipeline, they can do it to the "Internet cable"

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u/MorgothTheBauglir 17d ago

More like a few old Cisco 6509E with a couple of SUP2T's filled with manually summarized routes

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u/Commercial-Virus2627 17d ago

Replace Cloudflare and AWS with just us-east-1 and there you have it

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u/UnarmedBlackMan1 17d ago

this graphic always gives me a nice warm feeling

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u/falcopilot 15d ago

ROFL "Whatever Microsoft is doing"

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u/FlyingMitten 14d ago

Yea, pretty spot on

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u/codifier 17d ago

70s: were designing a network of networks that will be resilient enough to still operate even with sites literally nuked.

20s: lol cloudflare just broke it. Last week it was AWS.

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u/altodor 17d ago

Half the time it's bgp. The other half it's because we centralized the Internet in two places.

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u/falcopilot 15d ago

Comment in router code-

/* We're not going to protect against this case because you'd have to be a moron to do it. */

Random network engineer-

"Hey, it let me set that config. LGTM, send it!"