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The first lookup's multi-hop walk collapsing to a single hop on the cached repeat — and the NXDOMAIN never entering the cache.

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You'll learn

The full DNS resolution path, why caching makes repeats nearly free, and how failures are handled.

How it runs

Each tier only knows the next one down: root points to the TLD's servers, the TLD points to the domain's own authoritative servers, which hold the record. The answer is kept until its TTL expires; flushing drops it early; a name no server owns comes back as NXDOMAIN.