> what the hell, am I actually hitting root nameservers every time? Trace hits the roots because trace is for tracing the lookups from the root nameservers thr

> what the hell, am I actually hitting root nameservers every time? Trace hits the roots because trace is for tracing the lookups from the root nameservers through the rest of the path. It's in the man page: +[no]trace Toggle tracing of the delegation path from the root name servers for the name being looked up. ...