[Outages-discussion] What makes "dig +trace" start with 8.8.8.8? (was Re: [outages] Ebay dns record)

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Radel" <jradel at vantage.com>

> On 10/1/12 4:23 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > When I dig +trace, I do not expect GDNS to be the first hop, and the
> > end records to be the second. I'm not sure what is causing that, but
> > I'm relatively sure it's something doubleplus ungood. See the two
> > traces in my original posting, if it's not clear what I'm
> > complaining about.

> I'd expect that if the root hints file contained GDNS rather than the
> actual roots.
> 
> At best I'd have mixed feelings about putting my DNS into Google's
> hands to that extent, but I'm having trouble deciding what the moral
> distinction between that and forwarding everything to GDNS really
> is...I'll have to ponder that.

Well, it breaks dig +trace rather well.

I'm assuming it's because my edge NAT router is set to forward there rather
than FiOS's resolvers (though I didn't set that box up)... but that sort
of means that that Westell has to be *transparent proxying* DNS, rather
than just resolving to GDNS, I would think -- otherwise it shouldn't affect
dig +trace, which is running on my OpenSUSE12 laptop, and whose hints file
would be the stock one.  I think.

Cheers,
-- jra
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