Turkey has switched Root-Servers

Tue Sep 27 16:37:18 UTC 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