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How does this work? Also, why can't nslookup resolve it?
by SuperCuber 6y ago
How does this work? Also, why can't nslookup resolve it?
- zuppy 6y agodomains are split by the dot, from right to left. what is not visible is that the top level domain is not really the first one. the first one is the root domain (or root zone), which is represented by an empty string. you can try it on any domain, add a dot at the end. it will resolve, but the web server may not be configured to respond to it with the right website. if you want to query a dns server for a top level domain, you have to query the dns that handles it, which in our case is one of the 13 root dns servers. read more here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_root_zone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_root_zone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server