[149766] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anonymous planning a root-servers party
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Parsonage)
Wed Feb 15 17:53:08 2012
From: Eric Parsonage <eric@eparsonage.com>
In-Reply-To: <5F40C962-FF7E-4197-BBA5-5E891104B17C@puck.nether.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:21:45 +1030
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
They could just mess with BGP announcements. If you can't route to the =
root servers they may as well not exist.=20
-Eric
On 16/02/2012, at 9:12 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
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> On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:36 PM, George Bakos wrote:
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>> As I hadn't seen it discussed here, I'll have to assume that many
>> NANOGers haven't seen the latest rant from Anonymous:
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>> "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:"
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>> http://pastebin.com/XZ3EGsbc
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>> 13 servers. Sshhhhh! Don't anybody mention anycast - it's a secret.
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> As is TCP, which requires a 3-way handshake, oh and the 41 day TTL on =
the . zone
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> 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.
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> This means the activity would have to be sustained and unmitigated for =
many hours (days) to have a significant impact.
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> - Jared
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