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itsamario • yesterday at 5:13 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Why dns is a topic eludes me because they all forward to root hint servers.

Why doesn't everyone just use their IANA resolvers?


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kijeda • yesterday at 5:44 PM

You're conflating two different concepts: DNS hosting, and DNS resolving.

This service seems to offer hosting services, i.e. publishing your domain's records in the DNS in DNS authoritative servers.

A DNS resolution service looks up and maintains large caches of DNS data on your behalf, optimizing DNS lookups by not requiring your own device to recursively query many different DNS servers. These lookups start by querying the DNS root zone, which is published by the DNS's authoritative servers which are listed in the root hints file.

dizhn • today at 9:32 AM

This service and similar ones live on because a lot of routers support setting your dynamic IP to a dns name by using these services. The services are incredibly simple but finding a service that your server actually supports is a gamble.

denkmoon • yesterday at 11:33 PM

Set your system’s resolver to the iana roots and see what happens

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