June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
11h 1m
English
The DNS hierarchy flows from an inverted tree that begins at the internet root, which is signified by the .. As we'll see, each . in a hostname or domain name signifies another layer in the tree.
All hostnames terminate with an inferred .; however, they are frequently written without them. Take a look at this diagram:

The root and top-level domain nameservers are required for resolvers to discover which authoritative nameservers to send any given query to. Now look at this diagram:
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