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Re: [LUG] Slow and non-excistant resolution....



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On Friday 07 February 2003 7:48 pm, Neil Stone wrote:
> Was not me being silly.. when an ISP's website says their DNS servers
> are x, y, and z you expect them to be resolving DNS.. they weren;t !

resolvers are different things from dns servers - the two are far to often 
intermixed, even thought they both do totally different things.

generally, DNS servers serve DNS, and DNS resolvers resolves DNS ;)

Many ISPs use the same serv(er/ice) for both jobs, which is rather silly imho.

 ~ Theo

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Theo Zourzouvillys
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<http://theo.me.uk/>




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