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

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Message-ID: <CAH8yC8ne2Zps0-ULdzxUaSGy2XVQH_VN59S6jxyhtiMKe6buow@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:08:56 -0400
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: Michael Stummvoll <fulldis@...mmi.org>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: How to access your favorite sites in the
 event of a DNS takedown ?

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Michael Stummvoll <fulldis@...mmi.org> wrote:
> 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.
Jon Postel tried to fix that. Its a shame he died before he completed the work.

Jeff

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