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On 2016-07-12, Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> That's why I phrased my suggestion as a question. I'm honestly curious: |
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> aren't DNS servers like Google ones (8.8.8.8 etc.) supposed to be reachable |
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> from anywhere? If you can't reach them, isn't your connectivity inherently |
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> broken? I'm sure I'm missing something here. |
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Oh, I'm sure there's some brain-dead ISP or BofH somewhere who blocks |
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traffic to outside DNS servers. Inevitably it's done in the name of |
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security. |
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Even if 8.8.8.8 is reachable, there may be internal, locally defined |
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hostnames that Google won't know about. |
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That said, after problems with various DNS servers on various |
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networks, I usually default to using 8.8.8.8... |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Does someone from |
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at PEORIA have a SHORTER |
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gmail.com ATTENTION span than me? |
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