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Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

  • From: Steve Gibbard
  • Date: Tue Sep 27 12:39:01 2005 
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Peter Dambier wrote:


Evren Demirkan wrote:

Ok So what,

I am located in Turkiye..Can Any one simplify the whole stuff in plain
English?

Evren Demirkan

Hi Evren Demirkan,

there has been for about one year a turkish root-server:

l.public-root.com

That server did not resolve the ICANN root but The Public-Root.

Until some ISPs in Turkey started selling turkish language toplevel domains
nobody noticed because in the legacy domains ICANN and Public-Root are
compatible.
So the basic story here is not really "Turkey is using a new DNS root," but rather, "users of alternate root servers notice alternate root inconsistency," which is exactly what those opposed to alternate roots have been predicting.

There's also a real root server in Turkey. According to www.root-servers.org, there's an anycast copy of i.root-servers.net in Ankara.

-Steve