RFC 1034:DOMAIN NAMES - CONCEPTS AND FACILITIES
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tree structure


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... The domain name space is a tree structure. Each node and leaf on the tree corresponds to a resource set (which may be empty). The ...
... DNS technical specifications do not mandate a particular tree structure or rules for selecting labels; its goal is to be as general as possible, so that it can be used to build arbitrary applications. In particular, the system was designed so that the name space ...


... domain name, for which it is authoritative, and all of the nodes in a particular zone are connected. Given, the tree structure, every zone has a highest node which is closer to the root ...
... algorithm assumes that the RRs are organized in several tree structures, one for each zone, and another for the cache: ...



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