At 12:48 PM 3/23/02, you wrote: >However, isn't there something called a "root" server that sits at >the very top of some gigantesque pyramidal structure constructed >from all the building blocks of the various "domains"? Would not >this so-called "root" server ultimately have the power to control >and administrate all other servers tied into the system?
no, it's a series of individual systems sharing their services between each other. Only superuser company might be the telephone company that owns the physical infrastructure via which these systems communicate. You might want to consider them that way, and they certainly structure their backbone fees in a way that indicates they may think of themselves that way also. I wish I were a glow worm, 'Cause a glow worm's never glum. How can you be unhappy When the sun shines out your bum? http://anarkissed.myip.org end transmission [o^o] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
