Take the 2-minute tour ×  On March 31st 2012, Anonymous plan to
take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet:
http://pastebin.com/NKbnh8q8  ... and I don't want to even
notice if it actually happens.  Assuming what they are trying to
do is feasable:    1. Are there any DNS servers that won't be
affected that I can use?   2. If not, is it possible to create a
non-expiring cache of all DNS records on a local machine?   3.
If so, how would I go about doing this?  Of course, DNS changes
wouldn't be reflected and TTL would have to be ignored; but that
is better than all DNS lookups just timing out.  related
question: How can I store DNS cache in case the DNS server goes
down?  share|improve this question I wonder how feasible just a
DDoS actually is... –  Shinrai Feb 15 '12 at 22:12 add comment
4 Answers  Having a cache of all DNS records is not feasible.
Setting up your own root server on the other hand is! ICANN
provides the root zone file here:
http://www.internic.net/zones/root.zone  So just set