May look stupid but I would still keep a
list of IP addresses for the sites I want to visit. With the list and the web
servers on I would still access the internet without DNS although most of the
services that are fully dependent on DNS would not work / run.
JK
From:
skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of Odhiambo ?????
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 5:27
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To: michuki@swiftkenya.com;
Skunkworks forum
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] what is
the besy way to take down the internet!!
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> wrote:
Hi Saich,
In this day and age, its "almost" impossible to take down the
Internet.
For you to succeed in doing this you would need to have a unlimited
resources, support from many Governments and individuals who will be
willing to see the internet go off.
In this case, you have the complete opposite so thats not likely. Am
reading this with the concept that by Internet you dont mean Yahoo or
gmail - but everything thats on the net being offline.
However, due to the Internet's architecture its possible to *disconnect*
pockets of it. This will either affect, countries, regions or
enterprises but not the whole.
Take note that i use disconnect and not take down. This means
interfering with reachability of the resources in one region from other
parts of the globe. Its essentially possible that a region i.e
continue to operate internally when external connectivity is cut.
So taking down the internet is not plausible but taking down an
enterprise or country's internet infrastructure and likely but will not
lead to a takedown of the internet.
Regards,
I still think that shutting down the DNS ROOT Servers will take down the
Internet, no? Though not instantly.
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Best regards,
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