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Dns Local Server Default Queries Hosts Answers Request

Front DNS: Local DNS name server
Back Also: "Default name server"

DNS queries from the hosts are first sent to the local DNS server. This answers the request
- from his cache or
- by resolving the domain itself and sending requests to the appropriate servers in the Hirarchy.

The local DNS server itself does not belong to DNS-Hirarchy.

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