Shutting down the Internet #OpBlackout

(Now you can access to the Spanish version of this post | Ya puedes leer la versión en Español de este post)

Hi there,

Hope you are doing well.

Does someone know what is the Operation Blackout?

Referring to the post title, this could mean "shutting down the internet" but the title is not 100% accurate.

We will proceed step by step.

What is a IP address?

In a easy way, is the registration plate of your PC. The only thing you should know is that you will share your registration plate with other users if you are sharing a router (like the ADSL router in your home)

What is a DNS Server?

In a short manner, a DNS Server is a address translator on the Internet.

When you type in your internet browser "www.mywebpage.com", your PC won't know what's that because

your PC only knows about IP addresses.

Then, the DNS will help your PC when translating:

www.mywebpage.com  ====>  12.34.56.78

How DNS Servers work?

There are only a few main dns servers, other DNS servers are working just by getting data from another DNS servers.

This is a distributed work which will improve the DNS translation performance.

Then, how can Anonymous shut down the internet?

Anonymous """""only?""""" need to bring down those root DNS servers and other will bring down in a domino effect.

Click here to get more information about root DNS Servers.

Why we say "only"?

There are many technical reasons that turns this attack very hard or even impossible.
The main reason is that these main DNS servers are implemented as clusters using Unycast but we won't explain this because this blog only explains the easy and basic hacking issues.

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