DNS Questions

[Allan Carhart <carhart.allan@com>]

Hey guys,

I have a DNS question.  I know how DNS works in general, but I'm wondering
about a specific,  special case.

I had to register my system with the Internic in order to run my own
nameservice. From the Internic:

  Domain servers in listed order:

  CARHART.COM                  206.14.118.18
  NS.MEER.NET                  140.174.164.2

A random machine on the Internet doing a lookup for a host within the
carhart.com domain (such as www.carhart.com) would ordinarily generate
these queries:

dynamic-ppp-123.isp.net --> ns.isp.net --> root-a.internic.net --> carhart.com 
(And carhart.com would then return the answer)

My question is -- What if some random machine does a lookup on carhart.com?
(or ns.meer.net, or ns.netscape.com,  or any host whose A record is sitting
in the Internic's tables)

Would the query look like this:

dynamic-ppp-123.isp.net --> ns.isp.net --> root-a.internic.net
and stop, with the root nameserver answering the query?

Or would it continue:

dynamic-ppp-123.isp.net --> ns.isp.net --> root-a.internic.net --> carhart.com
and make the nameserver answer with its own A record?


--Allan 
carhart.allan@com
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