/etc/resolv.conf

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:01:13PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> Well, it "has" the root zone only in the sense that it knows where the 
> root servers are from the results of its priming query, just as it 
> learns and knows referral information from subsequent queries. 
> Personally, I wouldn't refer to that as "having" the zone, which I would 
> reserve for describing authoritativeness. Also, I'm not sure what 
> relevance your statement has to the original poster's question.

Your phrasing of the first part is of course better.  In a sense, it is
delegating the root zone to whoever its root servers are [normally
those on the public Internet, but perhaps not].  It is normally not
itself authoritative for the root zone.

I had thought the statement was the answer to the OP's actual question
[as opposed to the /etc/resolv.conf red herring].

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