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 ...

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 ...

When a DNS server starts up, it has to find the root servers that sit at the top of the name delegation chain. For this purpose, a DNS server keeps a local hints file, named.root, (or named.cache ...

The BIND server is the most frequently used name server on the Internet and provides ... is configured to use root servers maintained by Open Root Server Confederation Inc. (ORSC) rather than ...

It will mirror the F-root server, one of 13 Root Name Servers around the world that control and organize accessibility to the world's web sites "Root Name Servers control and organize ...

On November 30 and December 1, 2015 unknown attackers unleashed two massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against many of the 13 DNS root name servers in what looked like an attempt ...

Two of the internet’s 13 root name servers have been separated to improve the stability and security of the web’s address system, following a major attack two weeks ago. On 21 October ...

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.

In a warning on Pastebin, Anonymous said last Thursday it would launch an action on March 31 as part of “Operation Global Blackout” that would target the root Domain Name System (DNS) servers.