On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:28:31PM -0400, Chris Johnson wrote:
> You're in the right direction. If your server doesn't know the answer to a
> question (it's not authoritative and the answer isn't in cache), it'll ask
> someone else. This may be a root server if no information at all about the
> request is cached, or it may be something further down the line. (Maybe it
> already has cached the fact that koobera.math.uic.edu is authoritative for
> cr.yp.to, but it doesn't know what the mail exchanger is for cr.yp.to. It won't
> go to a root server to find out--it'll head straight to koobera.math.uic.edu.)
Of course, who the root servers are is something that you have to
keep up to date in your bind installation. That is, bind doesn't
automatically know who the root servers are. That's something that
it looks to a file for. And it's up to you to keep the file up to
date.
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