| ICANN flips switch on IPv6 DNS root servers | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 05:11 PM | |||
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IPv6 took another significant step forward yesterday, as the root DNS zone was updated with IPv6 addresses for six of the 13 root servers. Most root servers are "anycasted:" physical machines are placed in different locations, but share an address. Requests are automatically routed to the closest server. | ||
| Complete article at ars technica. | |||