Moscow, February 10, 2010 –Coordination Center for national top level domains .RU and .РФ and Technical Center of Internet, announce about putting into service of the tenth node for domain zones of Russia. New node put into operation in partnership with MSK-IX. This node will cover domains in zones .RU, .SU and .РФ. New DNS-node will make handling DNS requests coming from users of North America faster.
Connectivity to US networks will be provided by connection to NYIIX traffic exchange point in New York and to IP port of the global carrier Tata Communications. Network access circuits are also provided by Tata Communications. The same company is providing Managed Security Services to protect the node against DDoS attacks.
During first days of operation the new node took about 20% of total load of DNS-network of national top level domains of Russia. DNS-network now consists of 10 nodes located in 7 federal districts of Russia, and also in Europe and America.
Use of IP-anycast technology, Internet users’ requests to domain names are handled by nearest DNS-node using shortest network routes with fastest response time. Besides this, IP-anycast technology ensures interchangeability of DNS-nodes and improves stability of DNS services against network attacks and outages in Internet networks. Maintenance and twenty-four-hour monitoring is provided by MSK-IX specialists.
