Danish TPB DNS Blocks

Flamsmark flamsmark at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 19:18:11 UTC 2009


2009/11/26 Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu>

> >Changing the DNS server to DNS rootservers would fix this problem.
> >
>      Bzzzt!!  That would eventually get an exit marked as a bad exit, too.
> Why?  Because the root name servers serve only information in the root
> domain and the so-called top-level domains (e.g., .com, .edu, .gov, .info,
> .mil, country domains, and so on).  They are much, much too busy to act
> as forwarders, so if you ask for anything that they don't serve themselves,
> you will get a "no answers" response.


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?
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