India has completed the integration
of three "clones" of root-servers that have been installed
in the country.
Root servers are a part of a system that allows Internet
users to access websites through names (eg. http://www.online-web-solutions.com/) instead of
numerical addresses, which are difficult to remember
and are impersonal.
Worldwide, there are only 13 root servers (named A to
M) that form the part of Domain Name Systems, and nine
of them are in US.
As the debate over 'Internet Governance' and 'control
of Internet' has heated up over the past few years,
'mirror and clone' servers have been put up across the
world.
The move will help bring down the cost of accessing
Internet in India, where the clone root servers has
been setup in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. "Normally,
other countries get to host only two such services,
but we fought hard and got three." said Indian communications
and IT minister Dayanidhi Maran.
The servers have been set up by the Department of Information
Technology along with National Internet Exchange of
India.
"These root servers are resolutions for the traffic
in the time of crisis. These servers will ensure that
traffic crisis is resolved in such a manner that the
user will not be aware of the fact that there was crisis,"
said Maran. The F-Root server at Chennai is operational
from August 7 2005. The K-Root server has been installed
in Delhi and is operational from August 17 2005. With
the installation of the I-Root server in Mumbai on 25th
August 2005, the integration process is complete.
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