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