November 17, 2003 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — APNIC (apnic.net), the Asia Pacific
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Network Information Centre, said today it would deploy two new Internet
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root nameservers in the Asia Pacific region next month.
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The servers, which are mirrors of the F-root, will be installed in Taipei
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and Singapore. This brings the total of new root nameservers deployed by
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APNIC in 2003 to five. Earlier in the year servers were installed in Hong
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Kong, Seoul and Beijing. According to APNIC, installations are supported
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entirely by APNIC, local hosts and partners.
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Root nameservers provide core lookup services to the Internet’s Domain Name
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System (DNS), which is accessed every time an Internet user visits a site
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or sends a message. Although the proximity of a local server affects access
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speed and efficiency, APNIC said there was only one root server in the Asia
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Pacific region until this year.
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The new servers are “mirrors” of the F-Root server, which are operated
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directly by the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) in the United States.
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APNIC said it has worked together with ISC on all F-Root servers installed
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thus far under a cooperative agreement aimed Internet infrastructure in the
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Asia Pacific region.
