Hello Martin,
The root servers do not serve the com/net/org or other gTLD zones.
Only the a.root does this. NSI has their own gtld-servers.net servers
which carry the com/net/org/edu/etc zones.
You can get a list of them by doing:
dig @a.root-servers.net com ns
Friday, December 01, 2000, 12:52:46 PM, you wrote:
> Well,
> dunno if I am missing something somehwere, but I can't get correct replies
> from any root servers but a.root-servers.net. Something seriously wrong
> going on? i.e
root@marla ~ >> ns microsoft.com a.root-servers.net
> microsoft.com NS DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET
> microsoft.com NS DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET
> microsoft.com NS DNS7.CP.MSFT.NET
> microsoft.com NS DNS6.CP.MSFT.NET
root@marla ~ >> ns microsoft.com b.root-servers.net
> microsoft.com NS record currently not present at b.root-servers.net
root@marla ~ >> ns microsoft.com c.root-servers.net
> microsoft.com NS record currently not present at c.root-servers.net
root@marla ~ >> ns microsoft.com d.root-servers.net
> microsoft.com NS record currently not present at d.root-servers.net
root@marla ~ >> ns microsoft.com l.root-servers.net
> microsoft.com NS record currently not present at l.root-servers.net
root@marla ~ >> ns microsoft.com m.root-servers.net
> microsoft.com NS record currently not present at m.root-servers.net
> -ML
-- Best regards, William mailto:william@userfriendly.com
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