Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2
by daigoba66 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:56PM
(#7272389)
No. The zone file lives on the nameserver (DNS server) which Route 53 provides. Namescheap registers a list of nameservers for your domain with the TLD.
An over simplified example for looking up "news.ycombinator.com":
1. First query the TLD nameserver for all ".com" domains asking for the authoritative nameserver(s) for "ycombinator.com".
2. Next query that nameserver for "news.ycombinator.com".
Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2
by sparagi on Thursday February 20, 2014 @01:54PM
(#7272779)
But, the first entry point is namecheap. The domain is at Namecheap, so it will not find the zone file at Route 53, if Namecheap does not send it there. Right?
Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2
by colmmacc on Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:43PM
(#7274468)
No, registrar's are your portal to updating data in TLDs, but those TLDs are each operated separately. .com and .net are operated by Verisign, for example.
An over simplified example for looking up "news.ycombinator.com":
1. First query the TLD nameserver for all ".com" domains asking for the authoritative nameserver(s) for "ycombinator.com".
2. Next query that nameserver for "news.ycombinator.com".