Recipient Institution:
Pusat Sumber Daya Informasi Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia

Project Leader:
Mohamad Dikshie Fauzie, Project Manager

Amount and Duration: US$ 8,780 / 6 months

Commencement Date:
February 2005

Abstract of Project
DNS is a critical infratructure of the Internet. It provides service for translating from hostname to IP address and from IP address to hostname. Indonesia is the second countries in South East Asia which perform root server (F root server) after Thailand (I root server).

Mirroring F root server should bring good impact for Internet performance in Indonesia. In this research we intend to find how much good impact from mirroring F root server in Indonesia.

This research project will give brief explanation about good impact from F root server mirror in Indonesia to Internet community and Internet researcher in Indonesia. In the end of this reearch project will give some recommendation to APJII (Indonesia Internet Service Provider Association) and Internet community how to maintain and evaluate the F root server mirror in Indonesia and as evaluation and recommendation for next root server mirroring project to APJII (Indonesia Internet Service Provider Association).