[34081] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sat Jan 27 21:34:27 2001
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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To: rmeyer@mhsc.com (Roeland Meyer)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 02:48:54 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: rmeyer@mhsc.com (Roeland Meyer), joshua@roughtrade.net,
nanog@merit.edu
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Ah.. your term "root server" is what I have always called "authoritative"
e.g. any listed master/slave for a zone.
>
> <Root server> ::= Any DNS server that has final authority for a <domain
> tier/level>;
> <domain tier/level> ::= root, TLD, SLD, 3LD, ... nLD (0LD, 1LD, 2LD, ...
> ,nLD).
> This is not to be confused with root level servers that have specific
> authority for dot, at the root level (0LD).
>
