Chapter 1409: Crisis and opportunity in Ukraine

Root servers are not well known to the general public.

Their full name is root name server, and this thing is crucial to network security and stable operation, and is known as the 'central nervous system' of the Internet!

The first generation of root servers is the IPv4 root server, of which there are only 13 worldwide. One of these is the primary root server, while the other 12 are secondary root servers.

These 13 root servers are in turn connected to thousands of sub-servers.

The 13 root servers are the foundation, equivalent to the group parent company in the commercial world, while the sub-servers are the subsidiaries set up in various locations to better carry out business.

The group parent company has the final say on how the subsidiaries are set up, so the key lies in these 13 root servers.

These 13 root servers manage all the domain names in the world.

It can be said that if one of these root servers stops working, it will cause the Internet in the corresponding region to collapse, which in turn will trigger chaos in the global economic and financial order.

In later generations, of these 13 root servers, the main server and nine secondary servers were all in the United States, and then one each in the United Kingdom, Sweden and the island countries.

Fortunately, the United States did not anticipate how extensive the future Internet would become, so it only set up 13 IPv4 root servers, misjudging the situation.

As a result, by 2016, the crisis of IPv4 address exhaustion was about to erupt, so the world's major powers joined forces to launch the 'Snowman Project' to create a second generation of root servers, IPv6, and there are a total of 25.

But at that time, it was already 30 years later compared to the present!

As it stands now, considering the development of the Internet in the Asian region, just one root server in the island country is simply not enough!

Most importantly, Xia Yu needs a root server to firmly establish Hong Kong's status and influence in the Internet industry.

Therefore, Xia Yu immediately ordered someone to investigate the situation of the root server.

Three days later, a complete report on the root server was delivered to him.

The current situation was different from Xia Yu's memory of the future, but he was delighted.

The investigation showed that there were currently only four root servers in the world, one primary root server and three secondary root servers.

The first primary root server was established in 1984 at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USC), and its IP address is 10.0.0.52.

The second secondary root server was also established in 1984 at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USC).

Then in 1985, that is, last year, two secondary root servers were established, one at the Stanford Research Institute International (SRI) and the other at the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL)!

In March this year, the secondary root server at the USC Information Sciences Institute was decommissioned and replaced by another secondary root server with the domain name ISIA.

Although root servers are used for military purposes, they are also used for academic research and civilian purposes.

Surveys show that although the United States invented the Internet, it has not yet attached the utmost importance to root servers, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) does not have a complete and unified plan.

It is still in the exploratory stage.

The think tank in the United States responsible for the investigation and collection of data analysed that although the United States has not yet authorised the establishment of root servers abroad, as long as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) can be dealt with, the reason being the internationalisation and promotion of Internet standards, it is still possible to achieve this!

Upon seeing this analysis, Xia Yu's heart settled considerably.

However, no matter what, he had to give it his best shot, and he could not give up even if there was the slightest hope!

After making the decision, he immediately gathered the think tank to further deliberate.

Two days later.

A team from the Information Science Research Institute of Jiuding University boarded a plane and flew to the United States.

This was only the overt team.

In secret, Xia Yu also mobilised the resources of the consortium to do his best to smooth things over.

Just as the plane had arrived in the United States, a world-shaking event occurred!

At 1:23 a.m. on 26 April, there was an explosion at reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The radiation dose released by this explosion was more than 400 times that of the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese islands during World War II!

Moreover, because the protective layer of the nuclear power plant was only one layer, the radioactive dust generated by the explosion was directly dispersed into the atmosphere and began to spread towards the western part of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Northern Europe, and it was impossible to stop it!

Once the explosion occurred, it dealt a huge blow to the prestige of the Soviet Union. Not only did the Soviet Union panic, but European countries were also extremely anxious.

Although the United States and mainland China would not be affected, as countries that possessed peaceful bombs, they had to pay close attention.

As it involved the Soviet Union, one of the two superpowers, any major event must be taken seriously, not to mention something involving a nuclear crisis?

For a time, the governments of countries around the world were preoccupied with the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and many relatively unimportant tasks were put aside.

Xia Yu also immediately instructed Ma Qianjun to have Luo Wang investigate the impact of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the Soviet Union.

That day, Xia Yu's major newspapers and television stations reported on the incident.

This broadcast by Global TV caused a great deal of attention in Southeast Asia.

When Xia Yu returned home, he saw that Elena was wearing a worried expression, while the other women seemed to be comforting her.

Xia Yu quickly put down his laundry and walked over, asking with concern.

'Elena, what's wrong?'

Cindy quickly answered for Elena, 'My dear, Elena was watching the news earlier and was worried that the nuclear fallout would affect the UK. She just called home but no one answered.'

Xia Yu nodded, looking at Elena, who indeed nodded.

Xia Yu shook his head with a smile, squeezed next to Elena, hugged her lightly, and comforted her, 'Elena, don't worry, the news only said that it might affect the whole of Europe, but that's only a possibility.'

'In fact, I think it will affect at most half of Europe.'

'The UK is so far away from Ukraine, it's very safe, don't worry.'

'Even if there really is some impact, then let your father and the others come to Hong Kong to live for a while.'

'Yes, Elena, what your husband says is definitely right,'

Kumiko Sumitomo took Elena's hand and comforted her softly.

'Yes...'

The other women also comforted her.

Elena's face brightened up, and she nodded lightly, 'Well, thank you all.'

'Let's go to the table, it's dinner time,'

Xia Yu said, and carefully walked towards the table with his wives.

...

It had been a year since Luo Wang entered Hongsu.

With no shortage of funds, Luo Wang had also opened up the situation.

If it comes to understanding Hongsu, it is definitely much better than Xia Yu's think tank.

In the following month, the impact of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant continued to linger, because Hongsu's investigation results had not yet come out, but the dangers of radiation continued to be revealed, with deaths reported in various places.

During this month, Luowang continuously reported back on the various situations within the Hongsu Alliance.

The most notable point was that there had been a huge change.

The conflicts within the Red Soviet Union have begun to surface with the outbreak of the Chernobyl incident.

In particular, Belarus, which does not have any nuclear facilities, has been affected to the greatest extent due to the wind direction. Tens of millions of people in Belarus are extremely resentful, but the Red Soviet Union's handling of the aftermath has been unsatisfactory.

If the rise to power of Gorbachev was the first step towards the dissolution of the Red Soviet Union,

then the Chernobyl incident was the second assist.

Of course, no one except Xia Yu could have predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union.

But Xia Yu wanted to take advantage of the situation to do something.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was located in Ukraine, and this time there had been a major accident, so the whole country was in turmoil.

Entering at this time was the perfect opportunity!