<div dir="ltr">Lol yeah that's how I do it when I'm doing it manually, dig one, dig the next level down, etc etc. Figured if you were doing it programatically it'd be less bandwidth to use the root hints :)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 August 2014 23:00, Michael Dale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdale@dalegroup.net" target="_blank">mdale@dalegroup.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class=""><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I reckon you could quite easily throw something together to parse <a href="ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/root.zone" target="_blank">ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/root.zone</a> to work out exactly which root server you need to query to find the NS for the domain being queried :)</div>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div>Probably, I was thinking it would just be easier to query the root name servers for the name servers of that specific TLD and then query those servers.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the link though, will be useful.</div>
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