The Bigger Picture of a DNS Implementation

This section sums up the relationship among the various architectural elements of a DNS implementation.

Figure 2-8. The big picture of DNS.

An NNM system is configured with a caching-only name server and refers to the two master servers in the north.acme.com zone. These in turn refer to the two root name servers that are configured with the authority records that point to the six name servers.

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