If I understand correctly, root means that they are authoritative. They are effectively independent of the classical root DNS servers and provide custom top level domains (TLDs) such as .geek which are not available in the regular DNS system.
Non root DNS servers merely relay requests to root servers or other DNS servers and cache response records according to their time to live (TTL).
That last part is what is catching my attention the most.
Does that mean that those domains can only be seen through their dns servers? Or just registered through them and everyone can see them?
Looks like using any other dns only has down sides.
Repeating the first line of text doesn’t help much. I’ve heard of DNS servers, but root? This is the first time. I’m trying to read about it and still can’t see the difference.
Hmm yes, I can now trust random people on the internet to provide me DNS and hope they are not logging my DNS lookups or feeding me poisoned DNS resolves.
I guess this is a good time to plug OpenNIC, the alternative DNS root https://opennic.org/
What is that? I’ve read most of the thing and I still don’t have a clue.
If I understand correctly, root means that they are authoritative. They are effectively independent of the classical root DNS servers and provide custom top level domains (TLDs) such as
.geekwhich are not available in the regular DNS system. Non root DNS servers merely relay requests to root servers or other DNS servers and cache response records according to their time to live (TTL).Most DNS systems just act as a cache for the “root” domain name servers controlled by ICANN, an American corporation.
This operates independently and adds their own, additional, top level domains.
That last part is what is catching my attention the most.
Does that mean that those domains can only be seen through their dns servers? Or just registered through them and everyone can see them?
Looks like using any other dns only has down sides.
It’s an open and democratic alternative DNS root.
Repeating the first line of text doesn’t help much. I’ve heard of DNS servers, but root? This is the first time. I’m trying to read about it and still can’t see the difference.
Extant since 2012 and this is the first I have heard of them. Incredible!
Hmm yes, I can now trust random people on the internet to provide me DNS and hope they are not logging my DNS lookups or feeding me poisoned DNS resolves.
what could go wrong
time to use public/private key-pairs to identify address owners, like yggdrasil-network does it for example, instead of antiquated centralized dns