well, that would have been a good theory back when the BIND 8.0 exploit was released. Wow, did the internet ever break. It broke hard. But these dots only show a rough correlation - they're concentrated around high-tech centers, yeah, but top-level DNS servers in particular? you're grasping, hard. Look at a distribution map of OC3 connections, or TUCOWS mirror sites, and you'll see something roughly similar. Plus the dots don't acually match up. Look at Australia. 2'd.

zahk

June 30th, 2006

5:17:19 AM CDT

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Well a show I watched speculated that if you were smart enough to pull this off anyways, you'd have some kind of shadow program the lurks until D-Day widespread across many, many computers owned by unknowing users which would bea widespread base for the attack rushing all DNS servers at once. That was all in theory though and I personally don't know about anything behind those statements. I'm just saying I noticed a RAGING similarity here.

vitafin

June 30th, 2006

5:18:52 AM CDT

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It is fairly similar, but with extra dots. I reckon they've got the DNS map, copied it and added some more just to confuse everyone.

spazdor

June 30th, 2006

5:26:05 AM CDT

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meh. a mass DNS-crash would cause the commercial internets to stop working, but everyone who has actual Important Business on the internet, like big-time governments, will be able to do the important stuff without using domain names. I know the IP addresses of most of the websites I frequent. When the world's DNS servers crash, I'll just spam my ISP's 3rd-level dns server with queries, and populate my local resolver - most of my internet will continue normally.