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I'm pretty sure every hacker group has gotten this idea at one point or another. Has anyone even come close to taking down all the root DNS servers at once?
by Hominem 15y ago
I'm pretty sure every hacker group has gotten this idea at one point or another. Has anyone even come close to taking down all the root DNS servers at once?
- tristan_louis 15y agoIt has indeed been attempted in the past. If memory serves me well, the best hackers could do was take 3 of the 13 out at the same time.
- astrodust 15y agoWith Anycast DNS there's actually more than thirteen servers even if there's only thirteen IPs. It's going to be almost impossible to flood them all simultaneously. These are machines on multi-gigabit backbone connections, not some crappy back-water FBI or CIA web server.
- necenzurat 15y agoFBI and CIA have posters not websites
- icehawk 15y agoThe last major attack was in 2007, and only two servers were rendered unreachable: http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/industry-developments/global-root-server-system-stands-firm-against-ddos-attack http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/industry-deve... For anyone to actually notice, you have to take down all 13 for 48 hours, and it will be another 48 hours after that before there is a complete outage for everyone.
- r00fus 15y agoGiven the built-in resiliency of the DNS system, wouldn't creating an alternative system[1] be more effective in disrupting the status quo? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterNIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterNIC
- icebraining 15y agoCreating one is easy compared to getting people to use it.