On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:58:13PM -0400, Evan Pettrey wrote: > Greetings LOPSA, > > I came across an article today talking about the 7 people who hold the keys > to the worldwide internet in the event of a catastrophic event. It seems > they mostly have control over public DNS if someething were to go awry. > > While this seems plausible I can't help but think it may be a bit like > theIT Crowd episode<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg>where > the IT Manager thinks the internet resides in a black box. > > > Is it true that 7 keyholders control the fate of the internet as we know it > (potentially)?
No. http://root-servers.org/ will tell you about the organizations that run the DNS root servers and where those machines are; if you could subvert a majority of them, you could cause a lot of havoc... but we would still recover. Even if you took control of all of them, people could agree to use alternate roots. The coordination problem would be difficult, but not insoluble, and I would expect some partitioning for upwards of a year. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
