Threat Post

Internet Root Name Servers Survive Unusual DDoS Attack

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 ...
Ars Technica

IPv6: coming to a root server near you

Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that "on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested ...
Science Daily

SD Supercomputer Center Researchers Find Unnecessary Traffic Saturating A Key Internet 'Root' Server

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 ...
Ars Technica

Attack floods Internet root servers with 5 million queries a second

Early last week, one of the most vital organs of the Internet anatomy came under an unusual attack. On two separate occasions lasting an hour or more each, a flood of as many as many as five million ...
ITWeb

Africa`s first root domain name server installed

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 ...
Computerworld

IPv6 transition: Observations from a name server perspective

As the operator of some of the core Internet name servers, including the DNS root, .com and .net, Verisign has a unique view into the challenges of transitioning to IPv6 and progress to date. The ...
Threat Post

Root Servers Were Not Targets of 2015 DDoS Attack

Two VeriSign researchers are expected to deliver a talk this week that explains how two Chinese domains were the targets of 2015 DDoS attacks that impacted the Internet’s root name servers. When the ...
TechNode

China’s imaginary root server to fix imaginary threat

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Server racks in server room cloud data center. (Image credit: BigStock/Kwarkot) Every Wednesday ...
ZDNet

ICANN turns on root server cluster in Singapore

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has turned on an ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) cluster in Singapore, marking it the first of such site in Asia-Pacific. The region ...
Business Wire

Etisalat and ISC Install Middle East's First Root Name Server

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2003--The region's Internet users served by Etisalat's Internet Network will now experience faster access to web sites following the installation of the ...
Arabian Business

Etisalat installs Middle East’s first Root Name Server

The region’s internet users served by Etisalat’s internet network will now experience faster access to web sites following the installation of the Middle East’s first Root Name Server (RNS) mirror ...