DNS delegation of daviddixon.com updated: May 25, 2013 5:26:10 PM
Delegation
step
query
auth
servers
1
daviddixon.com.
.
(g,d,j,m,c,k,f,h,b,e,a,i,l).root-servers.net.
2
daviddixon.com.
com.
(m,h,d,e,k,b,l,a,f,j,i,g,c).gtld-servers.net.
3
daviddixon.com.
daviddixon.com.
(ns4,ns1,ns2,ns3).mydomain.com.
We pick g.root-servers.net, one of the 13 root servers (1), and ask it about daviddixon.com and learn that com is delegated to 13 name servers (2), so we ask m.gtld-servers.net where we learn that daviddixon.com is delegated to four name servers, including ns4.mydomain.com (3), so we ask that one and get the following answer: