Internet Software Consortium and APNIC Install The First Root Nameserver in China.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2003 Internet Software Consortium (ISC) has installed a new F-root server anycast instance in Beijing in cooperation with APNIC APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Centre APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Center , China Telecom and the Beijing Internet Exchange which is run by China Netcom Corporation (CNC). The new server is a mirror of the F-root nameserver managed by ISC in the United States. Despite being the world's most populous country, China has never enjoyed the benefits of a local root nameserver, and this development will bring dramatic improvements in speed and reliability to Internet users in Beijing, China and the surrounding region. According to Paul Wilson, Director General of APNIC, this is one of the most important Internet infrastructure developments in the Asia Pacific region, in recent years. "APNIC is now allocating more IP addresses to China than to any other country, and this rate of growth will continue for many years. This rootserver deployment will support that growth and benefit the Chinese Internet community, and I am very glad of APNIC's role in such an important development." Joao Damas, ISC Senior Programme Manager, added, "China is the world's most populated country and we are excited to be working with APNIC supporting the development of the Internet in China with the deployment of this root nameserver. With this installation, ISC has added 13 new F-root mirror nameservers in 2003." The new server will store a series of information for identifying domain names that are included at the end of web addresses, for example '.' or '.com.' This enables it to find sites immediately in the region or to direct users to the other relevant servers located in other countries. For example, users in Beijing and the surrounding region have noticed a fifteen-fold improvement in response time. In addition, the new server will also decrease the country's dependency on foreign Internet connectivity. About APNIC APNIC, the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, is one of four regional Internet registries in the world, responsible for allocation and registration of IP addresses in the Asia Pacific region. APNIC is a not-for-profit membership organization, whose members determine the policies and direction of the organization through open self-regulatory processes. For more information contact Paul Wilson, Director General, at dg@apnic.net or visit www.apnic.net. About ISC ISC was founded in 1993 to develop and publish high quality reference implementations of core Internet protocols including DNS (Domain Name System) A system for converting host names and domain names into IP addresses on the Internet or on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol. For example, when a Web site address is given to the DNS either by typing a URL in a browser or behind the and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Software that automatically assigns temporary IP addresses to client stations logging into an IP network. It eliminates having to manually assign permanent "static" IP addresses. DHCP software runs in servers and routers. (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (protocol) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - (DHCP) A protocol that provides a means to dynamically allocate IP addresses to computers on a local area network. The system administrator assigns a range of IP addresses to DHCP and each client computer on the LAN has its TCP/IP ). ISC operates one of the 13 root DNS servers as a public service to the Internet. ISC has operated F.root-servers.net for IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, www.iana.org) An operating unit of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) that serves as a registry for both IP addresses and for a variety of protocol numbers. IANA is not an ISP and does not provide any network services. (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority See IANA. (body, networking) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority - (IANA) The central registry for various "assigned numbers": Internet Protocol parameters, such as port, protocol, and enterprise numbers; and options, codes, and types. ) since 1993. F answers more than 272 million DNS queries per day, making it one of the busiest DNS servers in the world. F is a virtual server made up of multiple systems and runs ISC BIND 9 as its DNS server. ISC's DNS implementation, called BIND, was originally developed at UC Berkeley as part of the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. (Berkeley Software Distribution (operating system) Berkeley Software Distribution - (BSD) A family of Unix versions developed by Bill Joy and others at the University of California at Berkeley, originally for the DEC VAX and PDP-11 computers, and subsequently ported to almost all modern general-purpose computers. ) system, and has subsequently been completely rewritten at ISC. Most DNS servers on the Internet run BIND or BIND-derived software. The ISC's reference implementation of DHCP is the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for all UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and UNIX-like systems including Linux and BSD. For more information contact Joao Damas, ISC Senior Programme Manager, at Joao_Damas@isc.org or visit www.isc.org |
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