80 Domain Name Server Hierarchy Update

Below the root internet resources are organized into a hierarchy of domains administered by the respective registrars and domain name holders.
Domain name server hierarchy. A domain is a subtree of the dns name space. If you are deploying dns in a private network and you do not plan to create an external namespace register the dns domain name that you create for the internal domain. The root is represented by an empty string.
Resolvers are client programs that extract information from name servers in response to user requests. It consists of two parts the host name and the domain name. Avoid extending the dns domain name hierarchy more than five levels from the root domain.
The domain name structure and domain name system were developed to organise and find the ip addresses of computers on large distributed networks. Glue records are required to break the query deadlock in referrals which return name servers in the queried domain. Next come each domain s server will delegate to the dns server at the next lower level in the hierarchy.
A address record for name server that has a name within the domain served by the server. A queried name server returns a name or address of a server that is closer to the answer domain. Domain name resolution or dns resolution is the process of associating ip addresses with domain names.
For example in the figure below edu is the top level domain berkeley is the second level domain and cs is the sub domain of berkeley. The top hierarchy of the domain name system is served by the root name servers maintained by delegation by the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers icann. A domain can further divided in to sub domains.
Fqdn is otherwise called an absolute domain name. You can reduce administrative costs by limiting the extent of the domain name hierarchy. The ohio state university raj jain 24 10 server hierarchy cont authority has the name to address translation table responsible either has the name to address translation table or knows the server who has a single server can serve multiple domains e g purdue edu and laf in us root server knows about servers for top level domains e g com.