Root servers question

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> 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?

	It's not useless info.  The root servers tell you where all
	the tld servers live.  This is their job.

>  Why aren't the root-servers.net hosts CNAMEs for the
> gtld-servers.net hosts, or vice-versa, or something like that?

	Because they are different machines.  Having them as different
	machines allows the net to scale further.

	Mark
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