They could just mess with BGP announcements. If you can't route to the root servers they may as well not exist.
-Eric On 16/02/2012, at 9:12 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > > 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 > >
