DNS server's 404 screen

[John Pierce]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> John Pierce wrote:
>
>> You don't need to send any requests to your isp, no matter who they
>> are, if configure bind9 to be your name server.  The root server that
>> bind9 uses to startup are addressed directly.
>
> !  It was my understanding that you shouldn't be using root servers...
>
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The root servers are used to prime your dns server.  Everyone does it,
that is how the name server boots itself up so to speak.  Once it has
a list of roots then it can start running your queries against the
next level domains.

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