NEWBIE QUESTION ABOUT DNS

[Michael Voight]

To understand how DNS works, you should read a good book about it.
I highly recommend "DNS And BIND" 3rd edition, published by O'Reilly and
Associates, written by Cricket Liu 

Stefano Santangelo wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm sorry, but mine is a fool question about how DNS work (I'm trying to
> understand it....).
> I understood (probably...)it is hierarchical, that is to say if I ask my
> server for a domain that he's not authoritative for, he ask to "someone
> else" (the root server for the .com TLD for instance, which says what is the
> name server authoritative for that domain), but it's right this I can't
> figure out, how does my name server know the "root server"?
> 
> Can anyone help me to undertstand?