To determine how many nameservers you must query to locate www.flamingflamingos.eu, including the root server, you typically go through a sequence of hierarchical lookups in the DNS resolution process. Based on standard DNS behavior, the usual path consists of:

• Root nameserver
• TLD nameserver for the eu domain
• Authoritative nameserver for flamingflamingos.eu
• Optional final resolver cache (depending on timing and caching)

Direct answer: typically 3 to 4 distinct nameservers are involved, counting the root server. In common explanations, the minimal sequence includes the root, the TLD (.eu), and the domain’s authoritative server, which totals 3. Some explanations add a final step to the resolver’s cache, bringing the total to 4 in certain scenarios. The exact number can vary depending on caching and the resolver’s behavior. If you’d like, I can walk through a concrete, step- by-step example of how a DNS query would traverse these servers in a typical recursive-resolver path and show how the eventual A/AAAA record for www.flamingflamingos.eu is returned.