New Instance of RIPE NCC Operated K-root Server Deployed in Brisbane, Australia

Amsterdam, 29 June 2005

The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with APNIC (The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) has deployed a new local node instance of the K-root Internet root name server at PIPE Networks Exchange in Brisbane, Australia.

The K-root server is one of the 13 Internet root name servers that resolve lookups for domain names all over the world and form a critical part of the global Internet infrastructure. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a service used to translate between host names and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses by virtually all Internetworking software, including e-mail and web browsers.

This new instance of the K-root server is one of a set of distributed mirror instances implemented by the RIPE NCC using an IP anycast technique to provide high availability of the K-root service and improve resilience to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, while remaining transparent to the end user.

The RIPE NCC has operated the K-root server since 1997, when we installed the first instance at the London Internet Exchange (LINX) in London, UK. Since early 2003, our technicians have deployed mirror instances of the K-root server in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Athens, Doha, Milan, Reykjavik, Helsinki, Poznan, Geneva, Tokyo, Abu Dhabi and Budapest.

You can find more information on the K-root website:

http://k.root-servers.org/