Root Servers

https://root-servers.org

DNS | Dataset | Tool

Overview page for the DNS root servers. It contains links to general news and all the supporting organizations.

The website features a map with all geographic locations. It contains information about locations, IPv4/IPv6 reachability and IP addresses.

Each root server has its own subdomain in the form of https://a.root-servers.org. It contains access to historical performance data like:

  • Size and time of zone updates
  • RCODE volume
  • query and response sizes for UDP and TCP
  • traffic volume (packets per time)
  • Unique sources