Mac Slavo SHTFPlan.com Thursday March 29, 2012 The hacking group known as Anonymous intends to attack the core servers that control the routing of all internet traffic. DNS, or Domain Name Servers, are a critical backbone of the web and make it possible for internet surfers to reach web site destinations by typing in a domain name in their browsers. Once a particular web site is requested, a query is sent to a domain name server, which then redirects that web address to a specific IP address on the web. Without these servers, access to web sites through traditional means (typing in a ‘dot com’) becomes impossible, because there is no way to direct the traffic to the appropriate web site destination. According to a statement released by Anonymous, it is these servers that will come under fire on Saturday, March 31. http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/march-31-operation-global-blackout-hackers-intend-to-shut-down-the-internet-by-disabling-core-dns-servers_03282012