From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote in message
news:3bvm63l2bnm4gpkd2n1bt84v2hst9d7nqh{at}4ax.com...

>> www.yourdomain.com 1.1.1.1

> Huh?
>
> If I open http://www.yourdomain.com then my system will send the host name
> to my DNS server.
>
> In your scenario, my DNS server would end up sending the query to 1.1.1.1.
> But that example IP is your web server, and it will not respond to a DNS
> query. My attempt to open the web site would fail.

Your dns server will query the root servers for the NS records for the
domain, one of the records is www.yourdomain.com which is then in cache
when you go to query for that so it doesn't need to talk to anything but
the root servers to resolve the NS records.

Geo.

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