Anonymus vs DNS Server

Post by **sniper3d** » Sat 31 Mar 2012 00:16

Interpol's chief, Ronald Noble, warned Friday that a group of computer hackers could attempt to shut down Internet services tomorrow.

The hacking group, Anonymous, is protesting against several reasons, including the Wall Street crash and these irresponsible leaders.

There are 13 DNS servers that host the databases to translate IP addresses.
Anonymous hackers announced "Operation Global Blackout", promising to cause a worldwide Internet outage by disabling DNS base servers.

Anonymous hackers want to bombard these 13 servers with traffic using a distributed denial of service attack. If the servers are too overloaded, they will crash and thus will not be able to fulfill DNS requests which would render all domain names useless.

Don't panic, there are many limitations to this type of attack!

*13 servers to manage at the same time!
millions of combinations (I trust them)
*attack scheduled for March 2012
* not everyone will be connected that day!
*And the DNS prepare their defenses

Conclusion: I don't think Anonymous will be able to shut down the Internet. So, what do you think Anonymous will manage to shut down the web?

Post by **TGbot** » Sat 31 Mar 2012 05:41

Not at all, because there are actually more than 50 servers that manage dns for the whole internet in reality. Then these servers query the other dns servers, some every 6 hours and others every 48 hours, so all 50 servers would need to go down at the same time and no one intervening. So the global dns cache would spread the info for 48 hours. Which means nobody would notice anything.

During the last attack this group of servers received, the internet was still working.

I'd bet it's not the anonymous, but script kiddies!

Post by **sniper3d** » Sat 31 Mar 2012 15:49

Thanks for the details Kalidor.

50 servers, yes, and only 13 are actually root, the others redistribute.

there are actually more than 130 sites in 53 countries hosting a DNS root server.

2002 attack

On October 21, 2002, the entire DNS root was the target of a large-scale attack for an hour, with the 13 servers A through M targeted. During this attack, 7 out of the 13 servers saw their performance degraded due to a flow of 100,000 to 200,000 requests per second toward each server. However, the attack didn't cause major disruption to the global network, which shows the system's robustness. According to the CEO of Verisign, which manages two root servers, all the requests could have been handled by a single server.

The attack was carried out using the DDoS (denial of service) method. Thanks to a very large fleet of machines, the attackers were able to generate two to three times the load capacity of the thirteen targeted servers, i.e. forty times the usual volume of requests.

The anycast system was set up after this attack to neutralize DoS-type attacks.

2007 attack

On February 6, 2007, servers F, G, L and M were attacked for 24 hours starting at 10:00 UTC. G and L were seriously affected, while F and M reported unusual load. The impact on M was reduced thanks to anycast.

The source turned out to be a botnet network of 5000 machines mainly based in South Korea and directed from the United States.

Post by **MamieSophie** » Tue 3 Apr 2012 13:38

Anonymous built their reputation on "defending the poor against the attacks of the rich".
If they decided to do this kind of attack it would harm all internet users, even the ones Anonymous claims to defend.
That's not like them and I call FAKE...

Post by **AN54** » Tue 3 Apr 2012 18:13

This constant misinformation around Anonymous kills me... Everyone talks about it, few get close to the truth. Already, the conflation between LulzSec and Anonymous is scandalous.
95 percent of anons' actions have nothing to do with the internet, or hacking or anything like that...
I invite you to look into it yourselves

Anonymus vs DNS Server