[??STUPID] Is linux "hardwired" to use the InterNIC root server?

Benjamin Redelings I (bredelin@UCSD.Edu)
Mon, 02 Feb 1998 00:18:19 -0800

I've been thinking about this problem with having the whole internet
use one server. I (while not being very informed) suspect that the
American government is thinking of farming out top-level domain names to
different companies mainly so that people can make money, not for the
good of the internet or to allow people to avoid being controlled. It
doesn't sound like a real solution.
This is a bigger problem that money. (e.g. What about individuals or
other countries? The US government shouldn't control the internet) So
my question is: would it be easy to configure software so that it
checked, say, 5 competing DNS providers, none of which was in any way
official? Could we just ignore the government's attempt to control the
internet and do something better, or is the ip of the InterNIC root
server hard-coded into the kernel?

Thanks for any info,
-BenRI