DNS example

Root name server:

• may not know authoratiative name server

• may know intermediate name server: who to contact to find authoritative name server

requesting host

surf.eurecom.fr

gaia.cs.umass.edu

root name server

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authoritative name server

dns.cs.umass.edu

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