On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Steve Muchai
<smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/4/27 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>:
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> I believe shutting down all the DNS ROOT Servers is enough, no?
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True, but taking down all 13 (are they still 13) would be near
impossible.
Why impossible? They are run by some people, no? Just order them to do it;)
Then there are several hundred thousand, if not a couple
of million, sane DNS caches out there which would keep the 'net
running until the root are back.....
The ROOT servers are not supposed to come back! They are destroyed
So soon, TTL and expire times reach for all domains and slowly (but surely) things start stalling...
Maybe not, but if the Internet relied on a single DNS server, it sould be the easiest way to "shut it down".