Recursive Lookup?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <_XxY3.47$Ba2.155 at paloalto-snr1.gtei.net>,
Bob Helland <bhelland at gte.net> wrote:
>Can someone give me a definition of recursive lookup?  I can't quite seem to
>get that.

You send a DNS request to a local DNS server.  That server then queries all
the necessary remote server (starting with the root servers and working its
way down the hierarchy) to get the answer for you.

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