Failures of The Internet

Assalamu Alaikum!

Welcome back!

Today, my topic is about failures of the Internet. 

But at first, check my other blogs (yes, I call them blogs, if you don't, IDC):

https://samaraislamsaarah.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-internet.html

https://samaraislamsaarah.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-stages-of-making-program-different.html

https://samaraislamsaarah.blogspot.com/2024/11/ip-address-transmitting-data-packets.html

https://samaraislamsaarah.blogspot.com/2024/11/cellular-network-comparing-different.html

https://samaraislamsaarah.blogspot.com/2024/11/network-hardware.html

https://samaraislamsaarah.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-world-of-technology.html

(If they don't work, just copy paste them in the search bar)

So, let's start!

In my previous blog, "The Internet", I have discussed about how great the Internet is. But this great Internet has failures as well. Today, I'll talk about minor network failures, large internet failures, reasons of failures, effects of failures and solutions of failures.

Minor network failures:

When a connection breaks, it stops working and data cannot travel along the specific route.

We know that the Internet is made up of millions of connections and network all linked together. Because of this, data can use millions of different routes to reach their destination.

This means that you will not notice when a single connection on the Internet fails. Like, in this picture, one way is disconnected, but data still has other routes to go with.

Large Internet failures:

Sometimes, large servers or connections break. You may notice this when a service you use stops working or gets very slow. Mainly there are servers working for the same service, so if one break, your computer can access another. This means that you may notice that things `stop working` for a short period of time.

But, very unfortunately, lots of servers or connections can fail at the same time. They might take hours or days to fix.

Sometimes small failures are the reasons of large failures. This could be the main connection to the server. However, if there is only one connection, the data can travel along other routes.

Reasons of failures:

There are many ways of connections breaking. Breaks are most likely to happen in the connection form your device to the internet.

The Internet is like a set of roads connecting towns and cities. If there is one road that has a problem, drivers choose another way. These routes may be narrower so drivers cannot drive fast but can reach their destination. The Internet is similar to that. Data can travel through different routes, but some routes get busier, so data can choose another.

Examples of causes of network failure:

💘 Someone accidentally turns off the power.

💘 Someone unplugs a cable by mistake.

💘 A fire causes a wire for the server or connection to damage.

Effects of failure:

These kinds of failures have either small effects or large effects. Small ones happen very often. For example, if a network fails when you are working online, the work you haven't saved recently may disappear. Or if you are playing a game online, the game may stop working.

These network failures are annoying, but they don't usually cause huge problems.

Large network failures happen rarely. For example, the failure of a bank network, the failure of a world-wide online gaming station etc. 

These might cause some problem, but to prevent these, people of the companies spend a lot of money to stop them. They try to make copies of the servers that connect to the network so that when one breaks, another can be used.

Solutions of failures:

Now that we know what failures are, and their effects, lets come to the solutions.

Solutions might be:

 💞 Check your connection

💞 Contact the IPS

💞 Perform a DNS check

💞 Set up network monitoring

💞 Release and renew IP address

(I have no knowledge about any of these, so please do your own research. Sorry!)

So, that's all for today! Hope this was useful in any way. If you have any queries or questions, feel free to comment and I will try my best to answer!

Assalamu Alaikum!