rootservers

[Will Yardley]

aura% dig nl. ns

; <<>> DiG 9.2.0a2 <<>> nl. ns
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18672
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nl.                            IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nl.                     345600  IN      NS      sunic.sunet.se.
nl.                     345600  IN      NS      auth02.ns.uu.net.
nl.                     345600  IN      NS      ns.eu.net.
nl.                     345600  IN      NS      ns.domain-registry.nl.
nl.                     345600  IN      NS      ns2.nic.fr.
nl.                     345600  IN      NS	ns2.domain-registry.nl.

-w
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:33:00AM +0200, batman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know wich rootserver holds the .nl toplevel domains,
> 
> i mean i am not a dns wizard, i just like to know how the basics of dns
> work.
> 
> I read that a whois database is seperate database that is not accurate in
> giving the real domain info.)
> 
> for example i registered domain www.auto-matic.nl
> and the whois database (www.nic.nl/bestaat.lp) is reporting that the
> nameservers are NS3.ZONEEDIT.COM
> NS5.ZONEEDIT.COM
> 
> but i think the rootserver still holds the NXS.NL nameservers...
> 
> 
>