Well, the thing is they don't say 'How' they're going to do it. Which means there is nearly nothing that can be done to prevent it. For all we know, they've got vans parked across the street from each one loaded with a HERF weapon. (which would make sense given the name)Worgen said:
First, they would be shutting down the HTTP aspect of the internet, there's more to it than just the websites most people are familiar with see. If they are tech savy enough to do what they say they will, they will know how to communicate through the other channels.TitanAura said:
weirdguy said:
Simply entering IP addresses may work for some websites, but will not work for all. Many websites do not have a dedicated IP to call their own. Instead, they share that IP with other sites--or even subdomains of the same site. In this case, entering the IP address will either get you an error or a generic page that is none of these sites, or forwarded to whatever is the default site on that server.Kapol said:
Right, I was actually looking into that and just found the fact IP addresses are often shared out. But I was actually looking into finding out all the IPs of websites I would want to visit, just in case, when I found that out. I'm actually studying CNS right now, but most of what I'm doing is with setting up the routers and routes, not dealing with the DNS quite yet.evilneko said:weirdguy said:Simply entering IP addresses may work for some websites, but will not work for all. Many websites do not have a dedicated IP to call their own. Instead, they share that IP with other sites--or even subdomains of the same site. In this case, entering the IP address will either get you an error or a generic page that is none of these sites, or forwarded to whatever is the default site on that server.Kapol said:
Besides, you gonna remember to go note down the IPs of all the sites you visit? ;p
There is however a way ISPs could make such a short attack meaningless: increase the cache and TTL values on their own DNS, so that they don't have to go to the root servers.
You too can run your own DNS server, or just a plain DNS cache. Look up TreeWalk or AnalogX FastCache for Windows. If you run linux, you probably already know what to look up.
Bob_F_It said:
Yeah, it did, and was originally put forward by the NSA, not anonymous, but I'm dying to see if someone does it anyway.wintercoat said:
100% this. If (and I doubt they will anyway) do this, it will just provide as much ammo as angry middle-aged politicians need to ensure that the internet turns into some police enforced hell-hole. They seem to forgot that if it was Al-Queda or Iran threatening to do this, people WOULD be calling it terrorism, yet they want us to label them as crusaders for internet freedom.Bobic said:
