Re: Anonymous planning a root-servers party

[Grant Ridder <shortdudey123 () gmail com>]

I really don't think  Anonymous is dumb enough to forget about anycast.  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.

-Grant

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:36 PM, George Bakos <gbakos () alpinista org> 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.