Notice any uptick in "A future solar flare could wipe out the entire internet" stories lately? I've seen them from multiple publications and even some of those informative youtube channels have put out videos on the subject. Is this setting the cover for a global coordinated take down of the internet? Will it coincide with the implementation of a global government? What better way to stop the spread of info than to get rid of internet communications...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8&ab_channel=Veritasium
https://www.wired.com/story/solar-storm-internet-apocalypse-undersea-cables/
It's absolutely possible. It's a matter of scale.
Watch this.
It is impossible, because to shut down internet you need to shut down every IX in the world, not only Google, Facebook and Amazon in US.
To break the shielding of every single IX you need so much energy, that nobody will left on the Earth to be able to tell is internet is down or not. Even if somebody survive, the question of internet will be the least important thing they will care of.
And it definitely could not be solar flare. If solar flare could break your IX or datacenter, this just means that you, or your managers just stole a lot of money.
When the electric goes your internet goes.on the plus side you may die in the riots before you starve.
Do you ever see any datacenter or IX? Even simple internet provider node usually have not only UPS for half a day, but also a diesel-generators.
So, internet will still work for some time even if all power plants will be off-line. However nobody will care about internet in case of planetary blackout.
You are completely wrong. You need DNS just to quickly find IP address of, say, google or facebook. You don't need DNS for tox, torrents, zeronet and nearly everything else. WWW is only part of internet. And not the best one. And even for WWW you could use local DNS cache, a mirror of root DNS servers, or even a necessary records in your /etc/hosts
Could not understand where you find a problem. In any case you connect to the IP address, not to the name. Domain name is sent in headers of HTTP request over the established connection. You could form request by yourself, or just add a line with IP and domain name of interest to /etc/hosts. That's all.
They are perfectly accessible by IP address, just because it is the only way to access them.