
88: The Same Bucket
The garbage truck that exploded outside my house means I am karmically bound to share a piece of the networking book.
Authoritative nameservers contain the information for one or more specific domains. I run authoritative DNS servers for my domains, such as mwl.io and prohibitionorcs.com. Anyone in the world who performs DNS queries on my domains gets their authoritative answers only from my servers.
Recursive nameservers provide DNS lookups for clients. When you browse to my web site your computer asks a recursive nameserver for the IP address to connect to. The recursive nameserver finds…
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