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 ...

IPv6 took another significant step forward yesterday, as the root DNS zone was updated with IPv6 addresses for six of the 13 root servers. Most root servers are "anycasted:" physical machines are ...

The two DNS root servers "badly affected" by last month's intense denial-of-service attack were the only two targeted that have not yet installed the Anycast load balancing technology, according to a ...

Provided a couple of programmers are correct, what started out as an attempt to provide better Domain Name System (DNS) server performance on Windows machines may also be one way to reduce DNS ...

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 to ...

Just before Halloween this year, someone tried to take down the Internet by attacking the 13 root DNS servers, the computers that translate names like www.blahblah.com into their true numerical ...

A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet. The action by the server’s operator, Netnod, appears to have resolved a ...