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

Mapping root of a file server as a drive

Is there a reason you can't map the root of an SMB file server as a drive? My router is providing DNS via dnsmasq. As expected, I get a list of all the shares on the file server. I've tried this with ...
Network World

‘Net security gets root-level boost

A year after surviving a massive distributed denial-of-service attack, the Internet’s root servers are better fortified against hacker activity, thanks to behind-the-scenes deployment of a routing ...
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

Anti-spoofing measure embedded at internet root

The organisations that run the servers at the heart of the internet have taken a step closer to a web without DNS spoofing. The secure domain name server (DNS) protocol DNSSEC guarantees the ...