Adding nameservers through godaddy ev1servers etc
When you add your own nameservers under the registrars control panel what is acutally happening?
For instance, most have an option to create nameservers based on this domain, so i would enter
ns1 172.5.4.2
ns2 172.5.4.3
for example. i would then run dns software at thses addresses, and point any domains i want to host to use ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com as their nameservers.
am i correct in thinking that during the name resolution process somebody would type www.myhostedsite.com, a name request would go out to see who is authorative for myhostedsite.com. next would come back ns1.mydomain.com. a query would then be sent to my name servers to resolve www.
my question is who is handleing (as in is it the registrars servers, or root servers, or both) the resolution requests for the intial stages where you want to know who is authorative for that domain? what server is returing ns1.mydomain.com?
when you add nameservers based on your domain is are root servers being changed? if this is the case i take it registrars must have an interface to change the root servers records?
sorry if this is a bit confusing, im not 100% on how it all works so have trouble describing it.
TIA
Chris
