[silisili]

Howso? You still need internet access to hit the recursive.

[zinekeller]

Mindless routers (which are frighteningly many) that cache the results and won't show the true state of upstream connection, which is an important thing. There are a lot less transparent HTTP proxies that wouldn't respect no-store than mindless routers trying their best to cache results.

[sk5t]

Don't need internet access to read a cached record from a DNS service on localhost, on the LAN, etc.