South Africa has an 'insurance policy` against an Internet catastrophe, with its own root name server now operational at the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX), thanks to volunteers and ...

For more than four days, a server at the very core of the Internet’s domain name system was out of sync with its 12 root server peers due to an unexplained glitch that could have caused stability and ...

DNS is a system that associates IP addresses with domain names such as 'gigazine.net'. The DNS name server has a hierarchical structure, and if the lower name server does not know the IP address ...

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. An unusual DDoS ...

Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD analyzing traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System (DNS) "root" servers at the heart of the Internet found that the server ...

Teraco has stated it will sponsor colocation infrastructure to all 13 global root operators. “In sponsoring colocation infrastructure, we hope to increase the number of root operators available within ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) in 2005 serves aglobal Internet far larger and more diverse, in users and in uses, than the relatively small homogeneous network for which it was first deployed in the ...