Thanks, I needed that most authoritative input. While I may have missed several marks in my other comment, I’d like to think we converged on the fact that name

Thanks, I needed that most authoritative input. While I may have missed several marks in my other comment, I’d like to think we converged on the fact that nameserver is that first and largely the only step for a host to ask about a DNS record (hosts file not withstanding). I am with you on your definition of resolver, but it would appear to me that DNS resolver is a subset of resolver (as in apart from host-based resolver). I merely went by what many functional aspects that DNS documentations over the year are trying to convey.