Tanzania stabilizes Internet infrastructure
26 Aug 2009
Tanzania has become the first beneficiary of the Internet infrastructure project led by AfriNIC, aimed at improving resilience to distributed denial of service attacks by setting up copies of root servers.
The Tanzania Internet Exchange (TIX) point has received a copy of the “K” DNS root server operated by RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry in Europe. The root server is expected to improve scalability and resilience in case of DDoS attack, and reduce the delay in data passing between clients and servers.
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