Nit: dot in dot com,

Posted Oct 4, 2003 9:15 UTC (Sat) by rise (guest, #5045)
In reply to: Nit: dot in dot com, by Baylink
Parent article: After Sun goes out (NewsForge)

Actually VeriSign runs the .com and .net GTLD servers, the roots are still run by a mess of independent cooperating organizations (of which VeriSign is only one). For example f.root-servers.net is run by the ISC as a distributed virtual server, M by the WIDE project in Tokyo and K by RIPE out of London and Amsterdam. See http://www.root-servers.org/ for all the gory/interesting details. Thanks, by the way, for explaining the null label - after it surfaced in conversation last night I was surprised to note that some very clueful people had no idea it existed.

Nit: dot in dot com,

Posted Oct 6, 2003 16:12 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] (1 responses)

I'd fallen off the domain lists (when Verisign yanked them with no
notice to avoid litigation some years back); things are less ugly than
I'd thought; thanks.

But to reply to wcooley, no, I don't think that it was ever true that all
the root servers ran on Sun hardware either... I'm fairly sure that
ISC's, in particular, does not.

Sun on the roots

Posted Oct 18, 2003 17:18 UTC (Sat) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link]

I can't speak about other roots, but the RIPE NCC's root server (K) ran on Sun boxes for a few months only. The fact is they were too slow to keep up with the load immediately after going on-line. Admittedly this is a failure of the organisation to properly benchmark the hardware required, but it is also not a ringing endorsement of Sun either. ;)

The K root now runs Dell PC's.