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Re: Interesting new dns failures
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 21:15:39 +0200
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:57:06PM +0100, Simon Waters <simonw () zynet net> wrote a message of 53 lines which said:
PS: Those who make sarcastic comments about people not knowing the difference between root servers, and authoritative servers, may need to be a tad more explicit for the help of the Internet challenged.
Warning, the rest of this message is only for Internet-challenged. They are probably uncommon in NANOG. For instance, I cannot believe that people in NANOG may confuse the ".com" name servers with the root name servers. An authoritative name server is an official source of DNS data for a given domain. For instance, ns2.nic.ve. is authoritative for ".ve". There are typically two to ten or sometimes more authoritative name servers for a domain. You can display them with "dig NS the-domain-you-want.". A root name server is a server which is authoritative for the root of the DNS. For instance, f.root-servers.net is authoritative for "." (the root). You can display them with "dig NS ." (for the benefit of the Internet-challenged, I did not discuss the "alternative" roots).
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- Re: Interesting new dns failures, (continued)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Chris L. Morrow (May 25)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Tim Franklin (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Simon Waters (May 21)
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- Re: Interesting new dns failures Tim Franklin (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Steve Gibbard (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Tim Franklin (May 22)
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- Re: Interesting new dns failures Tim Franklin (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Joe Abley (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Simon Waters (May 21)
- RE: Interesting new dns failures michael.dillon (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Stephane Bortzmeyer (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Roger Marquis (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Gadi Evron (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Chris L. Morrow (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Gadi Evron (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Chris L. Morrow (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Roger Marquis (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Chris L. Morrow (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Gadi Evron (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Edward Lewis (May 21)
- Re: Interesting new dns failures Crist Clark (May 22)