Re: How to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown ?

["Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor () hammerofgod com>]

I think he was referring to a DNS blockade ala SOPA.  Though the suggestion was painfully obvious (and that I pointed 
out the HOSTS file a few days back) it does show the level of complete ignorance on the part of any legislator who 
thinks a DNS blockade will, in any way, affect access to pirate sites.  

Of course, we all know it is simply record industry lobbying to make the government pay to enforce copyright 
infringement so that they don't have to.  It really is quite a nice scam on their part:  don't invest in any real DRM, 
and make someone else pay to enforce your IP.  Nice.


Timothy "Thor"  Mullen
www.hammerofgod.com
Thor's Microsoft Security Bible



-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk] On Behalf Of 
Michael Stummvoll
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:24 AM
To: full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] How to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown ?

Hi,

> Do you know? Even in DNS take down you can youcan access your
> favourite sites.   

The More interesting question is: how possible is a complete "DNS takedown"?

I don't feel that this is a real danger to the internet.

> From technical Site, DNS is decentral. All the Rootservers are designed
to handle a fail/takedown of 2/3 of the dns-servers.

> From the political Site, the current public DNS is controlled by the
ICANN and so (theoretical) by the USA. But I think, if they would abuse their force too much, this just would bring 
more people to alternatives like OpenNIC.

Kind Regards,
Michael

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