The ever excellent Internet Protocol Journal, published by Cisco has an article this month by Steve Gibbard about the distribution of the Internet root servers. The press often writes there are only 13 of them. There are actually 117 at the time of this writing, and most of them outside the USA. This article will tell you where and what the remaining issues are. The study goes on to examine the geographical location of the gTLD and ccTLD servers.

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