A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why. | Ars Technica
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Few folks know how DNS works — the system that turns something like www.thingelstad.com into an address that your computer understands. Even folks that know how DNS works may not know the role of root-servers. They resolve the root name of ".", that is core to any of name resolution working. So it is a big deal if one of them gets confused.
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