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New Delhi , Aug. 25

IN a move that would not only reduce international bandwidth load but also speed up the response time for your system to find and access a Web site, the Department of Information Technology and National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) on Thursday announced installation of three mirror Internet root servers at Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.

"The installation of the root servers in the country will help in reducing the expensive international bandwidth load, increase the Internet resilience by bringing down our dependency on root servers abroad and improve host name resolution (in some cases) from hundreds of millisecond to under-ten millisecond," the Minister of Information Technology, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, said here.

Root server is a system of 13 file servers that are distributed around the globe and contain authoritative databases that form a master list of all top-level domain names (suffix attached to internet domain names like .com, .gov, .net and .edu).

In addition, there are also mirror copies of existing root servers at various locations. The root domain name servers form a critical part of the global Internet infrastructure.

The Minister further said that these root servers would help in resolution for the traffic in the time of crisis.

"These servers will ensure that the traffic crisis is resolved in such a manner that the user will not be aware of the fact that there was a crisis. At the time of crisis every root server will communicate with each other, like the cell phone user whose phone gets connected from one tower to another without the knowledge of the user," he added.

The installation and operations of the three new mirror root servers have been facilitated by Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) and NIXI.

The F-Root server at Chennai has been operational from August 7, while the K-root server has been installed in Delhi and is operational from August 17. With the installation of the I-root server in Mumbai today, the integration process is complete, he added.

All the three Internet root servers were integrated in the presence of Mr Paul Wilson, Director General-APNIC and Mr Axel Pawlik, Managing Director of RIPE.

RIPE NCC acts as a regional Internet Registry, providing the allocation of Internet Protocol (IP) numbers to the European region.

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