Oh boy explain the plan to the public, it's not like the FBI or any other law enforcement agencies can see it and implement countermeasures
The reason they can announce it to the public is because there's no countermeasures to be implemented. The system that's being described in the OP causes the servers to do something they do all the time, just a lot more frequently to the point where they're so stressed the legitimate requests don't have a chance. The only way they could prevent this is to shut down the connections between their servers which will end up blacking out the internet anyway.
what exactly will that do?
When you type google.com into your browser, it sends a message to these servers. It pretty much asks, "HEY! What's the IP that google.com is tied to?" All internet connections use IPs. If you tried to connect to "Google.com" you would get an error. You have to ask these servers what the IP behind google.com is, then it tells your browser and it connects to that IP. If these servers went down, there would be no way to get an IP address from a website name, so you'd have to type in the actual IPs of the websites.
Here's another tidbit: Most webservers host more than one website. Typing in the website's IP likely won't load that website. HTTP queries look like this:
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
The webserver then links example.com to the correct website and loads that website's data. If you typed in the IP of the website, the Host value would be the IP and it would just display whatever the first website on the list is.
Here's some proof: Blockland.us's IP address is
75.125.196.138. Go ahead and try to connect to it:
http://75.125.196.138/You get a message that says "Hi." This is because the webserver ties blockland.us to the data on blockland.us, not just the IP.
