[34054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no)
Sat Jan 27 17:32:48 2001
To: rmeyer@mhsc.com
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, joshua@roughtrade.net,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:52:11 -0800"
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:28:30 +0100
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> <Root server> ::=3D Any DNS server that has final authority for a
> <domain tier/level>;
That's what's commonly referred to as an "authoritative name
server" for the zone in question.
I'll side with Bill M: a "root DNS name server" serves the root
zone, aka. ".".
Regards,
- H=E5vard
