{"id":2063,"date":"2018-02-14T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2018-02-12T04:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:02:55","slug":"everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-root-name-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-root-name-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you wanted to know about Root Name Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the foundations of the Internet is DNS.\u00a0 We have talked about DNS alot.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/?s=DNS&amp;submit=Search\">http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/?s=DNS&amp;submit=Search<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There have been TBW Podcasts about DNS<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c8m2Sjre6t4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So are you ready to get your geek on?<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s start with who operates the root name Servers. A quick visit to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.root-servers.org\/\">http:\/\/www.root-servers.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NetNod <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netnod.se\/i-root\/what-are-root-name-servers\">will explain the rest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the foundations of the Internet is DNS.\u00a0 We have talked about DNS alot. http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/?s=DNS&amp;submit=Search There have been TBW Podcasts about DNS So are you ready to get your geek on? Let&#8217;s start with who operates the root name Servers. A quick visit to: http:\/\/www.root-servers.org\/ NetNod will explain the rest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[40,317,461,520,521],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VLMf-xh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":342,"url":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/change-to-h-root-servers-net\/","url_meta":{"origin":2063,"position":0},"title":"Change to H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET","author":"j2sw","date":"August 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Posted to NANOG This is advance notice that there is a scheduled change to the IP addresses for one of the authorities listed for the DNS root zone and the .ARPA TLD. 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