It’s interesting to note the localized DNS, BIND-PE, is configured to use root servers maintained by Open Root Server Confederation Inc. (ORSC) rather than the standard roots used by my ISP.

Not all. The M server is operated by the WIDE Project in Tokyo, and the K server is managed by Amsterdam-based RIPE. The F, I and J servers point to many addresses around the world through the ...

You can have 2012 DHCP failover to a server in a whole different site if you have a reliable WAN. Either, having a server available to serve 100% of the scope for as long as you need is far superior.

These experts said the attack, which started about 4:45 p.m. ET Monday, transmitted data to each targeted root server 30 to 40 times normal amounts.

Root servers manage the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), used to translate Web addresses such as Amazon.com into the numerical IP addresses used by machines.The attack appeared to have been ...

The original 13 root servers (named A through M), came under a denial-of-service (DoS) attack in late 2002, and some of them were temporarily knocked out of service.

While these three root servers were disrupted by the botnet attack, 10 other root servers worked fine. Overall, the Internet’s service suffered little disruption, and few corporate users even ...

A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet. The action by the server’s operator, Netnod, appears to have ...

Server racks in server room cloud data center. (Image credit: BigStock/Kwarkot) To much fanfare, Chinese officials last week greenlighted the country’s “first root server,” which acts like a phonebook ...

Hackers slow Internet root servers with attack Online attackers have briefly disrupted service on at least two of the 13 “root” servers that are used to direct traffic on the Internet.