DNS NS Question

[Kevin Darcy]

Kevin Darcy wrote:

>News wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I have a query on how DNS resolves in regards to name servers (NS) records
>>can somebody please explain this to be by way of the following example:
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>>Ok so given the following setup of a domain:
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>>example.net.             172791  IN      NS      ns1.example.net.
>>example.net.             172791  IN      NS      ns2.example.net.
>>example.net.             172791  IN      NS      ns3.example.net.
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>>If I am trying to resolve host1.example.net for example.
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>>Does the DNS resolveer work like this.
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>>Try ns1.example.net if there is no host found then it tries
>>ns2.example.net and so on. So it keeps working its way down until
>>one of the NS servers says it can Resolve the query?
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>No, "no host found" implies that one of the nameservers actually gave a 
>response to the effect that the query matched no name (or no records, 
>which is subtly different) in the DNS database. Once a response is 
>received by one of the nameservers, it is taken as definitive, since all 
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Oops, that should read "received from one of the nameservers, ...".

Sorry for the confusion.

                                                                         
      - Kevin