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Configuring the Domain Name Service

DNS root servers

Root servers are positioned at the top, or root, of the DNS hierarchy, and maintain data about each of the top-level zones.

Primary, secondary, and caching-only servers, when first configured, need to know the IP addresses of root servers so that they can begin to resolve client requests about other zones. A default list of root servers is provided in the file /etc/named.d/root.cache.


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