Talk:Name server

Name service protocol

OK, so what's a name service protocol? Do we need a name service protocol article? --Syaifulnizam_Shamsudin

Possibly referring to a Naming and Directory Service? -- Ff1959 22:48, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Every implementation of a name service has or follows a specific name service protocol. There is no "Name Service Protocol". There are only protocols for name services. Examples of name service protocols are DNS, WINS, NetBIOS. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 18:43, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

IP address

Someone changed the IP address used in the first example to 208.280.152.2 which is not valid. Anyone know why? Anyone want to change it to something meaningful? BrianAshe (talk) 02:15, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. I rewrote the lede, the explicit mentioning of an IP address, that is subject to change anyhow, is not needed. Kbrose (talk) 18:33, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Not about DNS

information that is specific to DNS belongs in the article for DNS, Domain Name System]. I am moving most DNS specific information to the proper article for that topic, except where DNS is used as an example. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 18:39, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

I have to agree with this comment. The article is a bit confused at the moment—on the one hand it tries to speak generically, and on the other, there's a lot of DNS-specific detail. Which is it? I just corrected some DNS-specific detail, but I think the argument that that detail ought not to be in the article is valid. There also seems to be a lot of link farming in this article, and the See Also section is inordinately long.

Personally, I think an article about DNS servers would be useful, and I wonder if an article about Name Servers is useful, because different name services use very different technologies. WINS, for example, is partly a broadcast protocol, but can operate with a server on managed networks. But there ought to be some decision as to which thing this article is about, because right now I think a reader would come away with a rather confused idea of what a name server is. Abhayakara (talk) 14:51, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Recursive vs Iterative queries

Only recursive queries are mentioned, although there's not enough detail to distinguish between iterative vs recursive I guess. This section needs to be expanded. This provided a good explanation, I thought; https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961401.aspx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:646:9300:52A0:65EE:E6C3:A49D:DB8A (talk) 17:49, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

I agree this should be overhauled. The section Name_server#Recursive query doesn't do a great job in explaining the differences between iterative and recursive queries. This is actually more relevant from a clients perspective. But this section mostly talks about servers. Also when a server is walking the DNS tree like, it generally *iteratively* queries other name servers, so this seems wrong: "it may recursively query name servers higher up in the hierarchy.". This may be helpful: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8499#section-6 Mebuege (talk) 15:39, 26 August 2020 (UTC)