Root servers question

[Derek J. Balling]

At 3:38 PM -0800 3/8/01, John Oliver wrote:
>Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
>
>>         It's not useless info.  The root servers tell you where all
>>         the tld servers live.  This is their job.
>
>If I want to see who's authoritative for a domain, I have to go to
>gtld-servers.net  This worked with root-servers.net as recently as a
>couple of months ago.  I guess I just don't understand the difference
>and why the gtld-servers.net domain seems to be slowly supplanting at
>least parts of what root-servers.net always did.

Summation: because the gTLD's were all served from the "root" when they
shouldn't have been.

They were moved to the gtld-servers.net machines so that root-servers.net
would only have NS records for TLD's. (direct 'children' of the root).

D

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