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By: Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Stéphane Bortzmeyer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:53:26 +0000

Actually, most of the root name servers are in Virginia (USA). That’s certainly true, I’ve read it on the Internet :

http://www.cpatechnologyadvisor.com/print/The-CPA-Technology-Advisor/How-Fragile-Is-Our-Backbone/1$1852

Today, 50 percent of world traffic travels via one U.S. state — Virginia — where most maritime terminals arrive and where most of the main root servers are located, which use DNS (Domain Name System) to transform an alphanumeric address (like cpata.com) into an IP address. These root servers are particularly sensitive, so if a successful hacker attack or a power outage occurred, they could be out of service and the Internet user would have no access to websites. And there are, in fact, only a few in the whole world — mainly in the United States, Britain and Sweden.

By: Phil Regnauld

Phil Regnauld — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:45:21 +0000

Agreed, the geographical diversity is a good thing from a strincly technical point of view.

By: Kim Davies

Kim Davies — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:42:08 +0000

Thanks Phil. It is true that the majority of the root server operators are US-based organisations. That said, I disagree that it doesn’t matter where the root servers themselves are located. The greatly increased diversity of the physical root servers provides improved performance and resiliency in the network.

kim

By: Phil Regnauld

Phil Regnauld — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:31:02 +0000

“So next time you hear there are 13 root servers, or that they are mostly in the US”.

10 of the 13 organizations that control the root servers are in the US.
Doesn’t really matter where they’re located.

Phil

By: Jose Pina Coelho

Jose Pina Coelho — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:56:15 +0000

The ’13 myth’ keeps coming from ICANN itself.

On http://l.root-servers.org/ the page starts with:

“ICANN operates l.root-servers.net, one of the thirteen root DNS servers, as a service to the community.”

By: Ivan Ivanich

Ivan Ivanich — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:10:02 +0000

The problem is that you, ICANN/IANA are trying to explain with technical terms something to the Russian authorities. However, they, the Russian government, think that you, ICANN, are a tool of the evil american imperialists, who dismantled the USSR, and are now after Mother Russia.
How can you fight with this?

By: Ritva Siren

Ritva Siren — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:49:15 +0000

Obviously, this “myth” is an indication of the nature of computing and of Internet. When something is posted, it stays regardless of the later changes in facts. Even search engines do not do a very good job in selecting the latest information instead of the old stuff.

In human metrics, it’s not so long, when having 13 server sites was still a truth. It may be eons if evaluated in Internet years, though.

Regardless, it’s still important to continue discussions about this, because the international traffic is so expensive especially in many developing countries. Serious improvements often only happen, when the discussion gets tough.

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Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:47:57 +0000

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