<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/26 Scott Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bennett@cs.niu.edu">bennett@cs.niu.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">>Changing the DNS server to DNS rootservers would fix this problem.<br>
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</div> Bzzzt!! That would eventually get an exit marked as a bad exit, too.<br>
Why? Because the root name servers serve only information in the root<br>
domain and the so-called top-level domains (e.g., .com, .edu, .gov, .info,<br>
.mil, country domains, and so on). They are much, much too busy to act<br>
as forwarders, so if you ask for anything that they don't serve themselves,<br>
you will get a "no answers" response.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>How odd. I use the root servers on my personal machine, and have never noticed this phenomenon. If you are correct, does DNS work? How does a user know which DNS servers are authoritative for other blocks?</div>
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