Root servers question
Bill Manning
bmanning at ISI.EDU
Fri Mar 9 01:59:48 UTC 2001
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% At 3:38 PM -0800 3/8/01, John Oliver wrote:
% >Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
% >
% >> It's not useless info. The root servers tell you where all
% >> the tld servers live. This is their job.
% >
% >If I want to see who's authoritative for a domain, I have to go to
% >gtld-servers.net This worked with root-servers.net as recently as a
% >couple of months ago. I guess I just don't understand the difference
% >and why the gtld-servers.net domain seems to be slowly supplanting at
% >least parts of what root-servers.net always did.
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% Summation: because the gTLD's were all served from the "root" when they
% shouldn't have been.
Its not that they "shouldn't", it was expedient at the time
the DNS was created (something about latency) and with the
evolution of the 'net, it was time to split the zones
onto their own servers. This migration started back in 1997
and was completed this year.
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% They were moved to the gtld-servers.net machines so that root-servers.net
% would only have NS records for TLD's. (direct 'children' of the root).
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