DNS delegation of bhola.com updated: May 19, 2013 11:50:54 AM
Delegation
step
query
auth
servers
1
bhola.com.
.
(f,m,e,l,i,h,d,g,k,j,c,b,a).root-servers.net.
2
bhola.com.
com.
(k,b,f,j,e,m,d,g,a,h,c,l,i).gtld-servers.net.
3
bhola.com.
bhola.com.
(lee,rose).ns.cloudflare.com.
4
cf-protected.bhola.com.
bhola.com.
(rose,lee).ns.cloudflare.com.
We pick f.root-servers.net, one of the 13 root servers (1), and ask it about bhola.com and learn that com is delegated to 13 name servers (2), so we ask k.gtld-servers.net where we learn that bhola.com is delegated to two name servers, including lee.ns.cloudflare.com (3), so we ask that one where we see a CNAME from bhola.com to cf-protected.bhola.com, so we have to start all over again. We already know that rose.ns.cloudflare.com is authoritative for bhola.com (4) and ask it about cf-protected.bhola.com and get the following answer: