China root DNS server shut down

Posted by Tux De Luxe at 18:19 29/03/2010
China root DNS server shut down: "A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the US has been disconnected from the Internet. The action by the server's operator, Netnod, appears to have resolved a problem that was causing some Internet sites to be inadvertently censored by a system set up in the People's Republic of China. Operators at NIC Chile noticed that several ISPs (Internet service providers) were providing faulty DNS information, apparently derived from China. China uses the DNS system"