[RFCI-Discuss] Interesting Question

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Derek J. Balling dies 04/12/2005 hora 13:39:
> So, if you were only paying attention to "the authority path", you
> could never track down a domain through the gtld-servers.net
> responses.

If you ask for the SOA, which is maybe a better one to ask to the upper
step in the DNS hierarchy, they give you the authority section in their
answer...

pierre at bateleur:~$ dig @a.gtld-servers.net yahoo.com soa

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @a.gtld-servers.net yahoo.com soa
; (2 servers found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4514
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5

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Alternatively,
Pierre
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