On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Michael Stummvoll <[email protected]> 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.
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