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

[Todd Lyons]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>> > 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
> It's not my router; it's not my network; I'm a contractor (this gig is
> telephony, not SA); it was just a passing curiosity.

Does SuSe use dnsmasq?  It really likes like the operation of dnsmasq
on Ubuntu.  dnsmasq sends your request for . to an alias that dnsmasq
creates (points to the IP addresses that your FIOS router hands out
with DHCP).

...Todd
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