BCP 209

RFC 8109

Initializing a DNS Resolver with Priming Queries, March 2017

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Status:
BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
Authors:
P. Koch
M. Larson
P. Hoffman
Stream:
IETF
Source:
dnsop (ops)

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Abstract

This document describes the queries that a DNS resolver should emit to initialize its cache. The result is that the resolver gets both a current NS Resource Record Set (RRset) for the root zone and the necessary address information for reaching the root servers.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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