On 5/22/06, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure that the root name servers NEVER answered directly for ANY top level domains.
And, I'm pretty sure they used to, so we're at an impasse there.
They are part of the mechanism of dns, and have been pretty much policy free for quite some time, the matter of how domains are registered and by whom, is a matter of policy set by ICANN now, and DOD/Jon Postel at ISC/USC before.
Ugh, don't even get started on the disaster known as ICANN (or better yet, I CAN'T)... [...]
Now, I'm not sure what the correct terminology for a second level domain like trilug.org is, for want of a better term, let's call it a second level domain. I'd argue that this is what most folks think of as a domain, it's what you register with a registrar.
I believe the top level domains are generally known as "Generic Top Level Domains" and things like trilug.org were called something else, but "second-level domain" gets the point across.
I'm still almost certain, that you can't get the OVERALL internet to see the nameserver(s) for your domain without going through your registrar*. Now it's true that you can have third (and perhaps higher) level name servers which are only visible because your second level name server knows about them, but I'm also pretty sure that this whole discussion has been about second level domains.
And I still say you're wrong about this. Your nameserver is perfectly free to delegate to whoever you want it to. You could even, using views or something like that, set things up so that your slave name servers can get your entire domain information but anyone else requesting it gets delegated to the slave name servers. This is perfectly valid in the DNS spec.
* I suppose that it MIGHT be possible through a misconfiguration of secondary/slave servers outside of your domain which serve your domain to partially advertise a new name server, but this will lead to an inconsistent view of your domain to the internet. I guess that this might have been what Aaron was hinting about with his "by accident" remark.
That's certainly possible too, but by no means the only way. Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
