Re: Count to 5000
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:32 pm
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honestly the goofier thing about that blog post was that I thought you could disable the domain name system by attacking the 13 root nameservers, as if they were actually 13 individual servers scattered across the world. in reality, there are 13 addresses of root nameservers, and every computer knows them, BUT those addresses don't each correspond to a single real world server, but rather many servers using a system called "anycast" where multiple servers in different locations can share the same global address. There's a good amount of redundancy in DNS and it's not as dramatic as 15 year old me was hoping. I was also kind of obsessed with IPv4 address exhaustion, which did happen in 2011, and also it has not really had any kind of global impact lol. It's 14 years later and we're still not really using IPv6. Internet infrastructure is wild but it's doing okay.
honestly the goofier thing about that blog post was that I thought you could disable the domain name system by attacking the 13 root nameservers, as if they were actually 13 individual servers scattered across the world. in reality, there are 13 addresses of root nameservers, and every computer knows them, BUT those addresses don't each correspond to a single real world server, but rather many servers using a system called "anycast" where multiple servers in different locations can share the same global address. There's a good amount of redundancy in DNS and it's not as dramatic as 15 year old me was hoping. I was also kind of obsessed with IPv4 address exhaustion, which did happen in 2011, and also it has not really had any kind of global impact lol. It's 14 years later and we're still not really using IPv6. Internet infrastructure is wild but it's doing okay.
