[149763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anonymous planning a root-servers party
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Feb 15 17:44:11 2012
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120215223632.7545efa0@alpinista.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:42:11 -0500
To: George Bakos <gbakos@alpinista.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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:
>=20
> "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.=20
> 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:"
>=20
> http://pastebin.com/XZ3EGsbc
>=20
> 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
