e.gtld-servers.net?

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:52:42AM +0000, Rick Deckard wrote:
> Working on DNS. I tried to resolve some bogus domains against my master, it
> in turn queried a root server (b.root-servers.net) then it queried
> e.gtld-servers.net (verified this with trace)
> 
> Why whould it query this server if it is not listed in named.root?
> 
> I'm using a current version of "named.root" as well.

IIRC, the root domain servers are not recursive.  If one of your bogus
domains used a TLD that your name server had not seen before, or which
had just expired, then it would go get the information from the TLD
name server.

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