cTLD and DNS upgrade

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dab6ic$2s5m$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Peter Dambier <peter at peter-dambier.de> wrote:

> You could in /etc/resolve.conf list up to three nameservers. You might
> put ask Public-Root first and then ICANN. If Public-Root gives you a
> wrong answer then your resolver wont aks ICANN. But if you ask ICANN
> first and tells you 'that domain does not exist' that is just as bad.

Putting root servers in resolv.conf generally won't work.  resolv.conf 
needs to point to servers that offer recursion, and most root servers 
don't.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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