Re: Where are we going, and root servers?

[Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr (Pierre Beyssac)]

According to Merton Campbell Crockett:
> If root nameservers only need to know the nameservers for the subdomain(s) that 
> they serve, how will DNS queries be resolved?  For example, my DNS nameserver 
> receives a query for "www.company.ltd".  It sends a query to a root nameserver.  
> By the luck of the round-robin selection algorithm, the root nameserver that is 
> contacted only serves the ".abc." and ".xyz."

There is absolutely no problem as I see it. You just seem to mistake
"." and ".xxx.". Root servers need to host "." and be aware of servers
for the subdomains under, and that's all. Obviously, all root servers
need to contain the same records, but that's not a problem.

The fact is that, currently, root servers host "." and ".COM" and
so on, but they don't host ISO country-code 2 letters domains.

Now, as requested by D. Crocker, I suggest that we continue this technical
discussion by e-mail if you wish.
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Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr