On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 01:52:11PM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
<Root server> ::= Any DNS server that has final authority for a <domain tier/level>; <domain tier/level> ::= root, TLD, SLD, 3LD, ... nLD (0LD, 1LD, 2LD, ... ,nLD). This is not to be confused with root level servers that have specific authority for dot, at the root level (0LD).
Roeland, do you make this shit up as you go along, or what? RFC 1034: 3.1. Name space specifications and terminology The domain name space is a tree structure. Each node and leaf on the tree corresponds to a resource set (which may be empty). The domain system makes no distinctions between the uses of the interior nodes and leaves, and this memo uses the term "node" to refer to both. Each node has a label, which is zero to 63 octets in length. Brother nodes may not have the same label, although the same label can be used for nodes which are not brothers. One label is reserved, and that is the null (i.e., zero length) label used for the root. The domain name of a node is the list of the labels on the path from the node to the root of the tree. By convention, the labels that compose a domain name are printed or read left to right, from the most specific (lowest, farthest from the root) to the least specific (highest, closest to the root). RFC 2010: 1 - Rationale and Scope 1.1. Historically, the name servers responsible for the root (".") zone have also been responsible for all international top-level domains (iTLD's, for example: COM, EDU, INT, ARPA). These name servers have been operated by a cadre of highly capable volunteers, and their administration has been loosely coordinated by the NIC (first SRI-NIC and now InterNIC). Ultimate responsibility for the correct operation of these servers and for the content of the DNS zones they served has always rested with the IANA. RFC 2870: 1.2 The root servers serve the root, aka ".", zone. Although today some of the root servers also serve some TLDs (top level domains) such as gTLDs (COM, NET, ORG, etc.), infrastructural TLDs such as INT and IN-ADDR.ARPA, and some ccTLDs (country code TLDs, e.g. SE for Sweden), this is likely to change (see 2.5).
BTW, I consider RFC2870 antiquated
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