Chapter 724 Domain Name Root Server
Theoretically, if any form of standard domain name is to be parsed, according to the technical process, it must be completed through the work of the global domain name resolution system. The domain name resolution system is similar to a pyramid. The first layer of the top is the root server, which is responsible for managing the domain name information of countries around the world. Below the root server is the top-level domain name server, that is, the database of the relevant national domain name management agencies, and then the next level domain name database and isp cache server. A domain name must first be parsed by the root database before it can be transferred to the top-level domain name server for analysis.
Since the Internet originated in the United States, the existing domain name root servers are managed by ICANN, an Internet domain name and number allocation agency authorized by the US government. ICANN, established in September 1998, is the highest management agency of the world's Internet. It determines the choice of Internet technology, the formulation of network communication protocols, domain name and IP address allocation, domain name registration and sale, and the formulation of related policies. It is responsible for the management of global Internet domain name root servers, domain name systems and IP addresses. Although it is claimed to be a ** company, everyone in the world knows that the US government has a great say in it.
If you use the telephone network as an analogy, icann is like controlling the telephone switchboards all over the world. icann is responsible for coordinating and managing various technical elements of DNS to ensure universal resilience and enabling all Internet users to find effective addresses. The DNS resolution service is the process of resolving English or address into digital signals that computers can understand. The address used in communication is ultimately determined by the 13 domain name root servers at the top of the network. The root server is like the "central nerve" running on the Internet. It can be said that whoever controls the root server will control the entire Internet.
These 13 root servers are mainly used to manage the Internet home directory. One is the main root server and is placed in the United States. The specific address is the US state secret. It is unknown yet. The remaining 12 are all auxiliary root servers, 9 of which are placed in the United States, 2 in Europe, 1 in the United Kingdom and Sweden, 1 in Asia, and Japan. Every year, the US government spends more than 5 billion US dollars to repair these root servers through Icann.
These 13 root servers can command ie, spark browser, etc.
Browsers and email programs control Internet communication. Because the root server contains about 260 Internet suffixes approved by the US government and designated characters in some countries, the US government has the power of life and death. It is commonly used by people in their daily Internet access,.
Analysis of international top-level domain names such as g, .com actually requires first providing services by domain name servers set up overseas, which shows how much dependence the world on the Internet root server controlled by the United States.
Americans control the root server for domain name resolution, so they control all corresponding domain names. If the United States does not want people to access certain domain names, they can block these domain names so that their IP addresses cannot be resolved. Then the websites pointed to by these domain names will disappear from the Internet world. In fact, when the United States attacked Iraq, Iraq's IP addresses disappeared on the Internet for a period of time.
In addition, with the privileges in domain name management, the United States can also monitor the network usage of other countries. For example, the United States can conduct traffic access statistics on certain types of websites in a certain country, roughly analyze the distribution of popular websites in the country and the access preferences of netizens, etc. The United States controls the root server for domain name resolution, and controls all corresponding domain names and IP addresses, which is obviously fatal to other countries.
The United States is the country with the highest level of hackers and the most technologically advanced in the world. Once you enter the websites related to defense and finance through these essential IP addresses, it represents the outbreak of a cyber war. This is like a sword of Damocles hanging on every country that does not care about the United States.
If the United States blocks the domain names of a certain country one day, their IP addresses will not be resolved. The websites pointed to by these domain names will disappear from the Internet. From this, if one day China and the United States have a feud, our domain name ".com" is deleted by the Americans from the domain name system, or even assigned to China to use IP addresses to cancel it, China will become a spectator of the international backbone network, and the entire domestic network will become a huge local area network. This is a very worrying prospect, and no one promises that this scene will not happen. Americans cannot rely on integrity.
This is not a joke. Yang Xing learned through a lot of behind-the-scenes news in this life that the launch of missiles in Taiwan in 2000 was a deterrent element, and the collision of Sino-US aircraft in 2001. Sino-US relations took a sharp turn. At one time, when the United States was at a loss, the United States deliberately or unintentionally interrupted its analytical services. As a result, China's large-scale network failures, and accessing foreign websites was slow or the address could not be found. This reality stimulated the experts and scholars who have been clamoring to connect with the international community and promote the networking of government affairs and military affairs, which calmed them a lot.
In this life, the domestic military has vigorously promoted the transformation of information technology. Among them, the crucial military Internet network, the Sanjun Information Platform, quietly used the domain name root server with independent technology. When they think that their network needs to resolve domain names through servers of other countries, not all military secrets may be spyed. The military leader in charge of information warfare feels uneasy at night, but the military network and civilian network are physically isolated. Strictly speaking, the military network belongs to a local area network. How the rapidly developing civilian network in China is not controlled by others is the focus of this information technology discussion.
Yang Xing's participation in this will be caused by multiple factors. First of all, the most outstanding member of Zhongxing Group in recent years is Nebula Electronics. Now the group has entered the ranks of several major electronic giants in the world and is one of the few domestic companies that have independent technology and can provide international-level information hardware equipment. Secondly, Zhongxing Group's other network company, Xingdong Network, is the only Chinese company in China that surpasses Microsoft and Yahoo and gains a foothold in today's most popular Internet technologies.
These two companies, soft and hard, are outstanding internationally. Even if the upper level has a dispute over Zhongxing's capital, at least the group boss and most of the management and technical personnel are from China. In particular, Yang Xing, the king of Zhongxing, is very patriotic and cannot bypass his assistance in establishing a national domain name root server.
For example, Xingdong Network is now the largest fiber optic network service provider in China. Although its scale and coverage are not as good as Telecom and China Unicom, it has fully realized fiberization through the comprehensive transformation of the national education and science backbone network. At the same time, as the largest equipment provider of the domestic military's "three vertical and three horizontal" fiber network, Nebula Electronics has also made an indelible contribution.
The most intuitive feeling about this is that the Taiwan authorities, as the base camp for detecting domestic military electronic signals, Taiwan's monitoring department was afraid to find that its wireless signal collection rate had dropped by 90%! The Taiwan government no longer dared to speak out, saying that it could grasp the movements of thousands of ballistic missiles on the other side, and announced that it had twenty-eight sets of response plans to boost its courage.
As StarDrive Network develops Linux-based operating systems for netbooks, smartphones, servers, supercomputers and embedded chips, it is becoming increasingly favored by domestic governments and military units with high confidentiality requirements. After all, although Microsoft's Windows is widely used and accounts for the operation share of most PC computers, as long as it is considered that it uses other people's technology, major countries such as China and Russia that are not in conflict with the United States must be prepared to stay.
In addition, Yang Xing suddenly actively participated in this discussion. He also felt a pain in the recent attack on Xingdong Network and had to make plans early. Around the Spring Festival in 2004, Xingdong Network's search engine world number one, was hacked by hackers, the domain name homepage was hijacked, and he could not access foreign websites normally for a long time or was transferred to other websites. It took 3 hours. Later, Weibo and QQ communities were also hacked, Weibo was completely paralyzed, and the service of the QQ community was also extremely slow, and it took a full day to fully recover.
This incident has a great impact on the Internet. For this reason, Ma Huateng, Larry Page, Li Yanhong and other group executives all went on public relations to apologize, and the stop loss fee alone cost several million US dollars. Of course, this cannot be concealed from Yang Xing, who is on vacation, which has caused him to frequently expose himself on camera to cheer up his own company and ensure that he will investigate to the end, so that similar incidents will not happen again.
After investigation by Xingdong Network technicians, the main reason for this hacking was that the domain name DNS server was hijacked and replaced, and the main domain name had been resolved to the wrong URL. In fact, Yang Xing had guessed that this was the reason. In his previous life, he clearly remembered that Sina, Baidu and Twitter from China
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ook and Google have been attacked by the same attack. Now Xingdong Network has integrated all the above websites, and Sina.com has been acquired because of poor management. They have gained their own benefits and naturally become the main target of international hackers. This incident will inevitably happen, but I didn’t expect that the time was a few years ahead of schedule.
Originally, the main servers of Xingdong Network were all located abroad, but have been quietly transferred back to Hong Kong and China in recent years. Unexpectedly, this happened, which further promoted the group's idea of improving comprehensive network protection and interfering in the development of domestic domain name root servers. Now, several backup domain name servers have been set up in China, and the resolution service is not entirely dependent on the United States.
Not long ago, China announced that it had mastered the next generation of Internet IPV6 domain name root server technology. This time, Yang Xing and the experts at the meeting said that no matter how difficult it is, we must establish an IPV6 domain name root server and attach importance to the construction of the next generation of Internet from the perspective of national security strategy.
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