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There Are at Least 10 Million DNS Resolvers on the Internet Today

By CircleID Reporter
  • March 22, 2012, 4:39 pm PDT
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In a blog post on the ICANN website, Joe Abley writes: “Resolvers are servers on the Internet which use the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol to retrieve information from authoritative servers and return answers to end-user applications… So, all in all, how many resolvers are there? Given that anybody can run one, it seems like a difficult thing to measure. It turns out, however, that all resolvers that talk directly to authoritative servers on the Internet leave a trail, and with a little data crunching we can come up with a number.”

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10 million seems low to me. Phil Howard  –  Mar 25, 2012 7:13 AM

10 million seems low to me.

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