Full Disclosure: Re: How to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown ?

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Michael Stummvoll <fulldis () stummi 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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