2009/11/26 Scott Bennett <[email protected]> > >Changing the DNS server to DNS rootservers would fix this problem. > > > Bzzzt!! That would eventually get an exit marked as a bad exit, too. > Why? Because the root name servers serve only information in the root > domain and the so-called top-level domains (e.g., .com, .edu, .gov, .info, > .mil, country domains, and so on). They are much, much too busy to act > as forwarders, so if you ask for anything that they don't serve themselves, > you will get a "no answers" response.
How odd. I use the root servers on my personal machine, and have never noticed this phenomenon. If you are correct, does DNS work? How does a user know which DNS servers are authoritative for other blocks?
