From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 12:28:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288A837B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:28:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sysfail.com (24-56-213-122.mdmmi.voyager.net [24.56.213.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2273B43F75 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:28:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aSe@SysFail.com) Received: from bob ([127.0.0.1]) by sysfail.com ([24.56.213.122]) with SMTP (MDaemon.PRO.v6.5.1.R) for ; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:29:34 -0500 Reply-To: From: "aSe" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: DNS question Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:29:32 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-MDRemoteIP: 127.0.0.1 X-Return-Path: aSe@SysFail.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a dns running on a freebsd computer at my company. I'm new to = the concept of DNS and how it all works. My question is: When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already = cached, how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the = ip? Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message