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Subject: Re: Cannot Resolve .Net Domains
From: Barry Margolin <barmar () alum ! mit ! edu>
Date: 2006-09-26 4:38:54
Message-ID: barmar-203C7C.00385426092006 () comcast ! dca ! giganews ! com
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In article <ef80co$1vq0$1@sf1.isc.org>,
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:22:12PM -0700,
> Will <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote
> a message of 9 lines which said:
>
> > On one of my DNS servers that is configured to do smart lookups, it
> > can resolve all .COM domains, but cannot resolve ANY .NET domains.
>
> dig +trace ? Log of BIND?
dig +trace won't help diagnose problems in the server, since it performs
the DNS hierarchy traversal in the client, not the server.
>
> > Would this indicate a problem with one of the root servers?
>
> I do not see why: the involvment of root name servers is the same for
> ".com" and ".net" (they just redirect to Verisign's name servers).
>
> > Which root server(s) handle .NET domains?
>
> None.
I think it's obvious that he means GTLD servers. And in this case, the
answer is that the .NET and .COM domains are delegated to the same GTLD
servers -- (A through M).GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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