On 02 Jun 2005, Peter Dambier <peter@peter-dambier.de> wrote:
Public-Root gets you ALL the IANA zones plus practically all publically available zones like:
juniata# dig @a.public-root.net doesnt.suck ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @a.public-root.net doesnt.suck ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46372 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;doesnt.suck. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: suck. 172800 IN NS tld1.public-root.net. suck. 172800 IN NS tld2.public-root.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: tld1.public-root.net. 172800 IN A 84.22.100.6 tld2.public-root.net. 172800 IN A 57.67.193.188 ;; Query time: 119 msec ;; SERVER: 205.189.71.2#53(a.public-root.net) ;; WHEN: Thu Jun 2 08:40:20 2005 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 114 OK! public-root.net does resolve the important publicly available zones. Thanks.