Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:50:08 -0500 From: "aSe" <aSe@SysFail.com> To: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: RE: DNS question Message-ID: <KCECKLBMJCEIIOLIPBPEKEBBCGAA.aSe@SysFail.com> In-Reply-To: <3E3C2EB0.6050801@potentialtech.com>
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>[please wrap you lines at 72 characters or so] > >aSe wrote: > >> When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already = cached, >> how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip? > >FreeBSD comes with a list of "root" DNS servers. These are master = servers >maintained by many different sources that have information on the top = level >domains. > From this list, the DNS can figure out which root server to contact = for .com >or .net or .whatever. That server then directs your server to the = specific >DNS server that has the information you are asking for. > >This is oversimplified. If you have forwarders configured, then the = forwarders >check their cache first, before consulting the root servers. >But the basic method is described there. Ahh okay, I understand that. Someone once told me the information is=20 already downloaded in a list, so the server doesn't have to contact=20 root all the time to get ns information. Is this not true anymore? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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