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by 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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