Hi Wash, Odhiambo ワシントン wrote:
Mich,
I still think that shutting down the DNS ROOT Servers will take down the Internet, no? Though not instantly.
As i had mentioned, it will require the consent of the US Government amongst and the individual and independent Root-Server operators who are NOT under USG. It will take a while if that would potentially happen. Also please note that there are over 100 instances of Root-Servers globally those would need to be shutdown too. locations www.root-servers.org If the root-server failed am sure a good number of people would revive the Alternative roots - this were seemingly alternative solutions for the Root that have died with time as some realities have come to pass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root Bottom line, shutting down the DNS Root servers will break down the resolution process. P2P and other applications that are non-dns dependent will continue to function. Hence it will cripple users ability to access content that they access through names. But everything else will remain intact. Regards, Michuki.