How does DNS replication work?

[Brad Knowles]

At 9:17 PM +0200 8/8/01, Michael Kjorling wrote:

>  I would not be overly surprised if Network Solutions is in charge of
>  one of the root DNS servers; after all, they were the only company
>  that would register com/net/org domains for a long time.

	Actually, no -- they are not.  There is the Registry side of the 
house (VeriSign), and there is the Registrar side of the house 
(Network Solutions).

	It's the Registrar side of the house that screws up any form that 
you submit to them, sends you spam every time they want you to pay 
them more money, etc....

	The Registry side of the house are the guys that actually have 
half a clue (such as Cricket Liu, Matt Larson, Mark Kosters, etc...), 
and I believe that they may very well still operate a root nameserver 
(actually, a pair of machines that poses as a single machine, behind 
a load-balancing switch), in addition to the .com gTLD nameservers 
that they operate.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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