Thanx for the in depth explanation!
Owen McShane wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Are there any public DNS services that might "know" more names than
> > one's ISP?
>
> that isn't how DNS works.
>
> The only name server that "knows" a fully qualified domain name is the one
> that is authoritative for that domain.
>
> Any other name server that is asked for the name will need to first ask the
> root name servers who is authoritative, and then ask this machine for the IP.
> (There may be more than one server that is authoritative for a domain,
> typically there are two although there can be more).
>
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