[149793] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anonymous planning a root-servers party
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave CROCKER)
Wed Feb 15 21:38:44 2012
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:37:42 -0800
From: Dave CROCKER <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
To: Grant Ridder <shortdudey123@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPiURgUGbx0mV65vUXqSC+YdUjnAPpGAZ=kC1Z_bCZH5nx1-JQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: dcrocker@bbiw.net
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On 2/15/2012 2:40 PM, Grant Ridder wrote:
> I really don't think Anonymous is dumb enough to forget about anycast.
Given their track record, it does seem advisable to take the threat seriously,
whatever taking it seriously might mean...
> 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.
Some discussions about that I recall guessed that it was an experimental probe,
for learning how to do a better attack. (Remember that 9/11 was a revision of a
prior attack on the towers.)
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
