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Do the root name servers store all information in the DNS?

April 26, 2017DNS servers store

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Do the root name servers store all information in the DNS?

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No, DNS is a distributed database. Storing all the information in one place would be totally infeasible today. This is exactly why the DNS was developed as a distributed database. For a detailed description of how the DNS works and the role of the root name servers.