--On Monday, August 11, 2003 11:35:17 +0200 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
What's special about ccTLD name servers?
Nothing -- your analysis is correct.
No, it is not. IANA does not store the IP address of www.google.com in the DNS zone file of the root.
Which is easily editable, and has the ability to propagate to all root servers in a fast and timely manner, using a well-known and defined interaction system. The root server operators will probably be happy to ensure us that this is the fact. There is no magic here -- just ordinary DNS. The ONLY magic addresses in the DNS are the root server IP addresses, because they need to be in the hint file; the rest is nothing special. -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.