Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?
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Re: Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?
#2hmm..and people here on HN say they aren't a digital terrorist group.....
Re: Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?
#3does this mean, that even if we typed the IP address of a site, we would get an error? i'm not sure how all the protocols work, so any clarification would be great.
Re: Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?
#4does this mean, that even if we typed the IP address of a site, we would get an error? i'm not sure how all the protocols work, so any clarification would be great.
No, you could still get to the site with just an IP address, if you have it.
Re: Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?
#5Good luck, Onanymous.
Big talk, like with Facebook, but nothing will happen.
Re: Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?
#6I'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?
Re: Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?
#7They should say the word "thus" more often...
Re: Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?
#8hmm..and people here on HN say they aren't a digital terrorist group.....
While the DOS discussed in that link is quite obviously misguided, counterproductive, juvenile and likely criminal, 'terrorism' seems like a pretty strong word.
Re: Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?
#9Most interesting bit :
The principle is simple; a flaw that uses forged UDP packets is to be used to trigger a rush of DNS queries all redirected and reflected to those 13 IPs. The flaw is as follow; since the UDP protocol allows it, we can change the source IP of the sender to our target, thus spoofing the source of the DNS query.
The DNS server will then respond to that query by sending the answer to the spoofed IP. Since the answer is always bigger than the query, the DNS answers will then flood the target ip. It is called an amplified because we can use small packets to generate large traffic. It is called reflective because we will not send the queries to the root name servers, instead, we will use a list of known vulnerable DNS servers which will attack the root servers for us.
Re: Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?
#10Let's assume they succeed. They take down the Internet at noon EDT (9AM PDT). What's the worst that could happen?