Root servers question

[Kevin Darcy]

Root servers are not the same as TLD servers, and you shouldn't be trying
to do "transfers" (I assume you mean zone transfers) from *either* type of
server. The purpose of the high-level servers is only to provide referrals
to lower-level servers. You then query those lower-level servers for the
leaf-node information you need. It's called a hierarchy.


- Kevin

John Oliver wrote:

> Why does a transfer of the root servers give a list of
> ?.root-servers.net when querying against them returns useless info, and
> you apparently need to query ?.gtld-servers.net to get useful
> responses?  Why aren't the root-servers.net hosts CNAMEs for the
> gtld-servers.net hosts, or vice-versa, or something like that?
>
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