Ars Technica

A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Europe to get one more root name server

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Espanix, a non-profit association composed of telecom enterprises in Spain, and the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) have reached an ...
Khaleej Times

New Etisalat server to let users have faster net access

DUBAI -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 mirror ...
Khaleej Times

Etisalat and ISC install Middle East's first Root Name Server

Previously, queries from this region took an average 214ms (round trip) and were answered in New York, USA; now the queries will take an average 3ms (round trip) and will be answered locally in Dubai.