North Korean Domain Names Return To the Internet 135
angry tapir writes "North Korean domain names have returned to the Internet over the last few days as the country continues to build its presence online. Websites, previously available only via IP addresses, are now accessible through dot-kp addresses and it appears more might be on the way."
Re:Not a troll (Score:2, Informative)
If they're open to the internet instead of an intranet, it means they not only can information get out, information can also get IN.
Or...so we hope.
Re:Whole country's domain disappeared?? (Score:5, Informative)
Pretty easily, at least in this case. The root servers provide these name servers for .kp:
kp. 172800 IN NS ns2.kptc.kp.
kp. 172800 IN NS ns1.kptc.kp.
which are both located on the same class C:
ns1.kptc.kp. 86400 IN A 175.45.176.15
ns2.kptc.kp. 86400 IN A 175.45.176.16
Which generally is indicative of the same network segment. I guess North Korea doesn't have a need for a particularly robust internet infrastructure, so there's a good chance there's just some servers listening on those addresses and no fancy load-balancing or anycast routing going on, and very likely they're at the same physical location.
If either of those stop responding to queries, then resolution of anything under .kp will fail.