Friday, 8. November 2002

Expert moving Internet root servers to secret location to prevent another attack


Experts have made an important change to the 13 computer servers that manage global Internet traffic, separating two of them to help better defend against the type of attack that occurred last month. Verisign Inc., which operates two of the root servers, moved one computer overnight Tuesday to a different building in an unspecified location in Virginia and onto a different part of its network, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.

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