Re: Anonymous planning a root-servers party

[Eric Parsonage <eric () eparsonage com>]

They could just mess with BGP announcements. If you can't route to the root servers they may as well not exist. 

-Eric


On 16/02/2012, at 9:12 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:

> On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:36 PM, George Bakos wrote:
>
> > As I hadn't seen it discussed here, I'll have to assume that many
> > NANOGers haven't seen the latest rant from Anonymous:
> >
> > "To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the
> > beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish
> > needs out of sheer sadistic fun, On March 31, the Internet will go
> > Black. 
> > In order to shut the Internet down, one thing is to be done. Down the
> > 13 root DNS servers of the Internet. Those servers are as follow:"
> >
> > http://pastebin.com/XZ3EGsbc
> >
> > 13 servers. Sshhhhh! Don't anybody mention anycast - it's a secret.
>
> As is TCP, which requires a 3-way handshake, oh and the 41 day TTL on the . zone
>
> 2 day TTL on the served data pointing to the com zone, so any well-behaved server should only touch the root once 
> every ~172800 seconds.
>
> This means the activity would have to be sustained and unmitigated for many hours (days) to have a significant impact.
>
> - Jared