WASHINGTON – Global Internet body ICANN responds over the news of globalcrash of Internet services.
ICANN said that it has noted handful cases where Net services might haveaffected adversely due to the upgradation of ‘keys’ at vital web serversthat took place on October 11. “It is now about 20 hours since the rolloverand based on all information we have, everything is going smoothly.
There have been only a small handful of reports of issues suspected to becaused by the rollover. In all cases it appears the impact was minor andthe issues were quickly resolved,” an ICANN spokesperson told PTI.
ICANN has announced in July 2016 to upgrade cryptographic keys that arerequired to access security system of website names, called Domain NameSystem Security Extensions (DNSSEC).
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When an internet user types a website on his browser, the broadband orInternet modem transmits that name to a system called resolver– whichconverts the website name in to numeric form containing code and serveraddress of the website.
ICANN has asked all internet service providers to upgrade their softwarethat resolves the website name in to digital code and directs the trafficto right server. DNSSEC is an additional layer which validates the websitename has been converted correctly.
