From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 12:48:13 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 BB6F737B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:48:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mgw1-out.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66EB243F3F for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:48:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from VirusGate.MEIway.com (virus-gate.meiway.com [212.73.210.91]) by mgw1-out.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 624B0EF69E for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:39:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.meiway.com [127.0.0.1]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C64285D009 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:50:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686D65D008 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:50:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from tx0-go2france-c.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A63627900124; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 22:03:50 +0100 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030201144443.02fcdfb0@mail.go2france.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.go2france.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 14:48:00 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: DNS question In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 >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? The DNS navigates the DNS namespace until it finds a positive or negative answer, or the until DNS's that should have the answer fail to respond. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message