“Therefore, controlling the root name servers means controlling the distribution of IP addresses and domain names.” China is already home to 10 root server instances, according to a map on the RSTOA ...

DNS DISARRAY A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why. For 4 days, the c-root server maintained by Cogent lost touch with its 12 peers.

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.

J-Root, the last of the 13 Internet root servers to make the switch, began serving a signed root zone between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. UTC on May 5, which was between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. Singapore time ...

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 ...

The initiative followed talks between UZINFOCOM representatives and RIPE NCC, the organization responsible for the distribution of IP addresses and AS numbers in Europe, on hosting a K-root server in ...

A trio of random domain probes sent from the browser account for half of all DNS queries that escalate up to the root servers. Written by Chris Duckett, Contributor Aug. 23, 2020, 6:43 p.m. PT ...

That’s because of how DNS works. Instead of just leaving these word-to-number translations on the root server, copies of them are cached all over the Internet on routers.