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.'"

Comments

Re:Er

[millisa]

I could care less if it was modded 'troll'. I'm still giggling over saying 'Krautkroot krautkroot' over and over . . .

Re:Dilemma

[El]

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. You mean a country like Canada, that doesn't go around pissing off the rest of the world? Diversity is a survival factor, especially in adverse conditions. If we put all the servers in one place, we might as well run the same exact Windows OS on all of them too...

Re:Can someone please explain

[britneys 9th husband]

The name service is very important for finding porn sites. There's an endless number of sites you can get to by just guessing the url: sex.com, porn.com, blowjob.com, weirdkinkystuff.com, etc. If you just had numerical IP addresses, you'd be stuck with 69.69.69.69 and not much else.