From: Alex Lee (alexleecharter.net)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 07:22:30 CDT

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Mr. Holland,

I cannot grasp the difference between 'DNS content servers' and 'DNS
resolver''. Can you elaborate a little bit or perhaps point me to some good
links on that ? Thanks.

Alex Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Holland" <nickholland-consulting.net>
To: "Misc OpenBSD" <miscopenbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: blocking new version of kazaa

>
> When you type a name, say, www.kazaa.com, something has to change that
> from the _name_ (www.kazaa.com) to an IP address. (63.210.47.39).
> That's your DNS resolver. (often called a "DNS server", but I'm going
> to distinguish between DNS servers that resolve names (resolvers) and
> those that act as content servers (answer questions in an
> authoritative way -- the server that gets changed when a service
> changes IP addresses).

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