Cannot Resolve .Net Domains

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ef80co$1vq0$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:22:12PM -0700,
>  Will <westes-usc at noemail.nospam> wrote 
>  a message of 9 lines which said:
> 
> > On one of my DNS servers that is configured to do smart lookups, it
> > can resolve all .COM domains, but cannot resolve ANY .NET domains.
> 
> dig +trace ? Log of BIND?

dig +trace won't help diagnose problems in the server, since it performs 
the DNS hierarchy traversal in the client, not the server.

> 
> > Would this indicate a problem with one of the root servers?
> 
> I do not see why: the involvment of root name servers is the same for
> ".com" and ".net" (they just redirect to Verisign's name servers).
> 
> > Which root server(s) handle .NET domains?
> 
> None.

I think it's obvious that he means GTLD servers.  And in this case, the 
answer is that the .NET and .COM domains are delegated to the same GTLD 
servers -- (A through M).GTLD-SERVERS.NET.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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