Hosting multiple TLDs
Barry Margolin
barry.margolin at level3.com
Wed Aug 27 14:54:17 UTC 2003
In article <bii8s7$2a8n$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
G. Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org> wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:58, Jim Reid wrote:
>> >>>>> "gerry" == G Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org> writes:
>>
>> gerry> I haven't followed the thread but if the subject is any
That's why your message is redundant.
>> gerry> indication of the question then the answer ought to be that
>> gerry> you don't host TLDs. That is the function of the root
>> gerry> servers.
>>
>> Er no. Your statement will be a big surprise to the root server
>> operators. The root servers don't "host TLDs". They serve the root
>> zone. Each TLD has its own set of name servers. And apart from .arpa
>> (for historical reasons) no TLD is served or hosted on the root name
>> servers.
>
>Oops ;-( You are right. Still one should not get the idea that
>individual machines can host the TLDs themselves rather they should
>remember that host domains that are members of any TLD.
I did, in my very first response to the OP. He clarified in the next
message that he was actually talking about a server hosting *second* level
domains that are in different TLDs, e.g. foo.com and bar.edu.
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