DNS delegation of cowww.googil.com updated: May 24, 2013 8:03:15 AM
Delegation
step
query
auth
servers
1
cowww.googil.com.
.
(h,l,g,k,m,i,f,e,a,d,j,b,c).root-servers.net.
2
cowww.googil.com.
com.
(b,i,c,j,m,a,f,h,g,l,k,d,e).gtld-servers.net.
3
cowww.googil.com.
googil.com.
(ns3,ns1,ns2,ns4).google.com.
We pick h.root-servers.net, one of the 13 root servers (1), and ask it about cowww.googil.com and learn that com is delegated to 13 name servers (2), so we ask b.gtld-servers.net where we learn that googil.com is delegated to four name servers, including ns3.google.com (3), so we ask that one and get the following answer: