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Let's say you just finished writing a letter to grandma.
You put the letter in the mailbox and the little flag up.
The mailman comes to your house and picks up the letter.
The letter makes its way to the post office where suddenly, the post office finds someone deleted grandma's address from their records so they don't know how to get it to her.
The post office doesn't deliver your letter.
Basically that, but with people sending letters to facebook.com and instagram.com
Interesting analogy except for the part where you forgot that the post office can read the address of your grandma on the envelope. Or is this about the laziness of the postal service?
In my analogy, the post office (router) lost the address and doesn't know where to send it.
If you understood how network packets (envelope) work, you would know the address is there to be read but the piece of hardware that's supposed to read it and route it doesn't know how because it doesn't have the right address to send it to anymore.
I hope that helps you better understand my analogy.
Got it, thanks... I was just joking , sorry.