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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

For this purpose, a DNS server keeps a local hints file, named.root, (or named.cache or named.ca, found in /var/named/ on many systems) that has the names and addresses for all the root servers.

It takes a Domain Name System (DNS) to convert them into internet protocol addresses (IP Adresses) such as 173.194.112.184 or 74.125.29.94.