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Root servers
I want to have a detail understanding about root servers in internet terminology. The only thing I knew about root servers is it helps to control traffic and maintain routes in internet. But how is this achieved, what is the working methodology of these root servers.
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Re: Root servers
Many different organizations maintain the servers on the root server system. Root server is one central server that replicates changes to the other servers on a daily basis.
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Re: Root servers
Root server is not a single server but a group of servers, I think 13 but not sure, at the top of internet name space. It means there a group of servers, to load balance, which contains same information and are referred as root or ".". For more details plz refer:
[url]http://www.howstuffworks.com/dns.htm[/url]
[url]http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/19a63021-cc53-4ded-a7a3-abaf82e7fb7c1033.mspx[/url]