[149762] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anonymous planning a root-servers party
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant Ridder)
Wed Feb 15 17:41:46 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120215223632.7545efa0@alpinista.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:40:47 -0600
From: Grant Ridder <shortdudey123@gmail.com>
To: George Bakos <gbakos@alpinista.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I really don't think Anonymous is dumb enough to forget about anycast. If
i remember right, another group tried to take down the root servers within
the past 5 or 6 years and only took out around 20 or 25.
-Grant
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:36 PM, George Bakos <gbakos@alpinista.org> 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.
>
>
