full-disclosure - Re: How to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown ?

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Message-ID: <20120627132428.653adc33@eddie>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:24:28 +0200
From: Michael Stummvoll <fulldis@...mmi.org>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: How to access your favorite sites in the
 event of a DNS takedown ?

Hi,

> Do you know? Even in DNS take down you can youcan access your
> favourite sites.   

The More interesting question is: how possible is a complete "DNS
takedown"?

I don't feel that this is a real danger to the internet.

>>From technical Site, DNS is decentral. All the Rootservers are designed
to handle a fail/takedown of 2/3 of the dns-servers.

>>From the political Site, the current public DNS is controlled by the
ICANN and so (theoretical) by the USA. But I think, if they would abuse
their force too much, this just would bring more people to alternatives
like OpenNIC.

Kind Regards,
Michael

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