[Cialug] Root servers

Adam Hill adam at diginc.us
Thu Aug 26 14:14:43 UTC 2021


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server#Root_server_addresses

There's a convention they follow, not sure how you'd look them up from
scratch without knowing this page's info
> There are 13 logical root name servers specified, with logical names in
the form *letter*.root-servers.net, where *letter* ranges from a to m

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 8:50 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I wanted to..... *root around*.... in the domain name system's root
> servers, where would I do that? Specifically, I'm just curious to know
> where, physically, they are. I guess, like, I'd query the root server, find
> out its IPs, then do some kind of network magic to locate the network its
> on and that would tell me where it is?
>
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