File formats:

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.