NEWBIE QUESTION ABOUT DNS

[John Tan]

there is a file on your dns server which contains the root hints information 
about the root name servers.


>From: "Stefano Santangelo" <stefano.santangelo at europe-net.com>
>To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at uunet.uu.net
>Subject: NEWBIE QUESTION ABOUT DNS
>Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:32:45 +0200
>
>Hi all,
>I'm sorry, but mine is a fool question about how DNS work (I'm trying to
>understand it....).
>I understood (probably...)it is hierarchical, that is to say if I ask my
>server for a domain that he's not authoritative for, he ask to "someone
>else" (the root server for the .com TLD for instance, which says what is 
>the
>name server authoritative for that domain), but it's right this I can't
>figure out, how does my name server know the "root server"?
>
>Can anyone help me to undertstand?
>
>


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