How to look up my NS and glue information in root zone files?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:02:31AM -0500,
 John Manly <jwmanly at amherst.edu> wrote 
 a message of 74 lines which said:

> Does a DIG command against one of these top-level servers really
> show me what is stored in the top-level zone files for my NS
> records, or does this information get overlaid somehow with the
> records that are actually in my own zone file?

It *should* display what is stored in the apex (here, ".edu") zone
files. It *may* display your own zone's (here, "amherst.edu") content
if:

* the apex nameserver is recursive (TLD servers should not be
recursive but some are and, worse, some do not set "fetch-glue no"),

* or the apex nameserver is also an authoritative name server for your
zone (most TLD never do so).