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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