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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.'"
Not according to the average American who thinks there is nothing outside the US except terrorists...
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
Sure, there may be more DNS root servers outside the US, but it would seem that Verisign still has exclusive rights to muck around with them. So what's the big deal?
Cool. This is as it should be, too.. As the rest of the world gets on the net, we'll se the US further down the list, I'm sure.
I've also found it sad that while the internet is a global service, many TLDs (namely .gov .edu) are US centric. Some countries right now use a .gov.TLDcc title for their government uses, I don't see why it couldn't have been .TLDcc.gov.
" imbalance of the internet towards the US has always bothered me"
Don't worry the rest of the world will catch up. Just like telephone networks, automobiles and transistors the internet will follow the usual pattern of:
1. US Invents it
2. US then screws it up
3. Other countries improve on methods and make superior products
4. US consumers flock to the improved, cheaper products
5. US companies create something new to get people to 'Buy American'
6. Follow 2 - 6
I'm guessing that the reason we Americans go from a technological breakthrough to wondering why the hell everyone buys the product from overseas is we're either to arrogant and set in our ways, we spent a lot of $$$$ being early adopters and now the technology we use is antiquated just as the rest of the world adopts it, or a combo of the two.
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Well, because most things users have dealings with operate by hostnames, rather than IP addresses?
Even more so when IPv6 comes in. Besides, unless you're a masochist, I bet your mail client has SMTP: mail..com, rather than it's IP?
Did you come to slashdot.org, or 66.35.250.150?
Thought so.
David
Other countries might not speak english, but they still get assigned english TLDs, so x.gov wouldn't be a stretch. For example, why is Japan .jp instead of .nh, when germany got .dk?
DNS converts the name (e.g. www.studentprogress.info) into an IP addy (65.49.199.172). Without DNS, the internet would be like the phone with no phone book.... no way to find the number of the person/company you want to call... and in internet terms, no way to find the IP address of the website you want. Think about it.... would you (and many users who are new to computers/the internet) find it easier to remember www.studentprogress.info or 65.49.199.172? My guess would be the hostnames.
There's no place like localhost
Zero. I mean the number zero. Arabic numbers. That thing used to navigation by stars. A culture of religious tolerance that used to acept jews hunted by the inquisition. Buildings designed to be cool in the desert.
I mean before western introduced crusades and petrol. More recently I'm not well informed.
"I think this line is mostly filler"
I find it kind of funny that the rest of the world thinks we're ignorant
You are sort of simple minded aren't you. Just because you refuse to acknowledge their existence doesn't mean that they do not exist. You should visit "Euorotrash states" like Belgium, or France. They are really quite nice. Why don't you like Asia? What did Asia ever do to you? (and don't start in on the Bird Flue or SARS). Try not going to an 'amricanized' resort. You'll find that there are other, more interesting cultures, that are totally different from your American ones. I pity you, because you have not the understanding, or the sense to go travelling.
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This whole root server thing is good for the Internet. For way too long, big corporations and the USA government have believed that the US "owns" the Internet. It seems like rules are made based on what USA corporations "want" or "need". Americans *do not* own the internet.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
No of course they don't count as other countries.
And just to be fair neither do the puppet governments that the US didn't put in place regardless of how far along they are.
Eventually it's almost all going to be the same thing. Then the only question will be "Do you want fries with that Big Mac?"
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But where would the automobile be if it were not for mass production?
So what?
He said invent, not popularise.
I am well aware that the U.S. is good at industrialising other counties inventions.
Well... how can a country "invent" something anyway? The original poster is an idiot.
You are missing the point, the United States government funded a LOT of the research that went into creating the Internet, obvious they had help from people around the world. But for a while the fastest growing Internet populous was the United States. Now the rest of the world has picked up the pace and a few countries have surpassed the pace. The DNS servers aren't being spread across the world, there are just plain more of them. Its nothing but a great thing for it will allow for an even larger capacity and greater ability to sustain a DoS attack. I'd say its a great day for the whole Internet community as a whole. I am an American and I have no problem with spreading the control over as many countries as possible seeing how so much can change in so little time here it just makes sense. Changes to the system will take longer which can be considered both a positive and negative depending on if you like how everything works now.
Corporations don't vote our leaders, people do
And they just love the fact that you belive that line.
In fact the religous hate factor was increased because it is like a way of excape to the west supported orient dictatorships (like Saudi Arab monarchs, the Sha of Iran, etc). Western support dictatorships to keep the oil fuel. The people is oppresed, they goto religious extremists, the extremists attack west, west reacts and the wheel keeps turning.
"I think this line is mostly filler"