What if the answer is not in the cache?

• DNS is a distributed database: parts of the tree are held in different servers
• They are called "authoritative" for their particular part of the tree
• It is the job of a caching nameserver to locate the right authoritative nameserver and get back the result
• It may have to ask other nameservers to locate the one it needs

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