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DNS Root Servers Outside US Surpass Those Inside
penciling_in writes "Paul Rendek, head of member services and communica of RIPE Network
Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) has
reported on CircleID that: 'For the first time in Internet history the
number of instances of DNS root servers outside the United States has overtaken
the number within. The balance was tipped by the recent launch in Frankfurt of
an anycast instance of the RIPE
NCC operated K-root server.' In
the same report, Daniel Karrenberg, Chief Scientist of the RIPE NCC says:
'We monitor the quality of the root name service from more than 50
locations worldwide, and we publish the results for everyone to see.'"
So it was a K-raut K-root server that tipped the balance?
*dodges the thrown fruit*
The number of countries outside the U.S. outnumber the number of countries inside the U.S.
I just changed bloody hosts three days ago and my DNS still isn't completely changed over! Now I find out it's because all the new servers are farting around in Frankfurt! Great, just great! =)~
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Time until someone makes a Windows-Linux parallel: 5... 4...
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I am part K-raut you insensitive K-lod!
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I wanted to read the article, but my browser can't resolve the host.
I don't know about you, but I prefer typing www.yahoo.com rather then 66.218.71.198. But thats just me... I've never been very good at memorizing 4 billion addresses.
"Personally, I'm torn between the cushy redundancy offered by decentralization, and the cushy security of having most of the servers in a stable, well-protected country."
oh i forgot, germany is such an unstable rogue state. better hurry up and invade!^H^H^H^H^H^H liberate
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
Personally, I'm waiting to see how the contenders in the Presidential election plan to restore American supremacy in this critical area of the New Economy. Forget mere investment in additional servers, let's jump right to forced annexation of the some of these upstart two-bit "nations"...
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Quick...
/. THAT
Everyone ping k.root-servers.net and try and
... and then there were none
I'd hate to think any of my packets being exported to those guys who wouldn't even help us rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction! I think in protest, we should hereby refer to all the USA DNS root servers as "Freedom Hosts" (cue Lee Greenwood music...now).
Yes but Export laws will keep any dns number above 2^2 from crossing the border.
Its amazing how those forigners keep sneaking back into the US to develop their software then releasing it like it came from other countries!
ls
Quick everyone in the US go setup 5 DNS servers!
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
... are resolved to us.
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There's a 386 box somewhere that handles that. I say somewhere because they lost it. It was working fine for years, and all the people that knew which box it was and where gradually moved on to something else. It's possible that the closet it was in was walled over--it happens. With the nest of wiring at *****, no one knows where the connection to it starts, never mind where it ends. It only has to handle a request now and then because of the overlapping nature of name servers, but if it ever crashes...