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by blibble 4541 days ago
whilst I can't choose my DNS provider on the train, at home I choose an ISP that is capable of running a recursive name server (if they can't run this very basic part of the service, I dare to think what the rest of it would be like...)

I'm still not sure why the practise of deliberately returning spoofed garbage in response to legitimate queries is seen as an acceptable practise.
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derefr 4541 days ago
> an ISP that is capable of running a recursive name server

I've never experienced such an ISP, and I've been through many. The mismanagement of ISP-hosted DNS, as far as I can tell, is the most common cause of residential "internet outage."

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drdaeman 4541 days ago
> I've never experienced such an ISP

How did they provide DNS services to their clients then? Or they bootstrapped you (via DHCP[v6], PPP's IP[6]CP or whatever they use to set up your IP layer) with public nameserver addresses like OpenDNS or Google Public DNS?

I believe I heard somewhere desktop Windows' resolver won't work iteratively and requires a nameserver capable of recursion. Although I may be mistaken on this matter.

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derefr 4540 days ago
I didn't mean they didn't provide a DNS resolver. I just meant that they weren't capable.
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pstack 4540 days ago
It may be surprising how many sysadmins and staff at even huge companies and massive complex highly-technical deployments don't understand very much about DNS. I have seen so many mission-critical deployments of various systems brought to a halt, because someone didn't configure DNS properly either on the actual nameservers or on the individual hosts.
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hnha 4541 days ago
Are you using some terminals in the train or why are you forced to their choice? Just set up your system to use different servers!
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