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		mfincham on Feb 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS serve... Most of the "root servers" are big anycast clusters. L root has at least 50 locations worldwide...

astrodust on Feb 15, 2012 [–]

I think the Anonymous "hackers" are still under the impression that one IP equals one server. Anycast works very well with UDP and they're in for a surprise as their attack is diffused across so many different links.

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