Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router?

• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t it a global effort? According to what I see, they list a bunch of servers in all Europe, USA, Canada, Australia …Japan?

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  • non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Of the tier 1 servers, 2 are in DE and 2 are in USA.

    You won’t really hit tier2 unless you’re trying to hit very specific records.

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    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think you’re supposed to query Tier 1 servers as a client. I keep forgetting how DNS and recursive lookup works, but the Tier 2 servers would be what people connect to and who do the heavy lifting. The Tier 1 do the root, authoritative stuff and their custom TLDs.

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      • non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You might be thinking of PKI and certificate trusts.

        Tier 1 in DNS terms are high-level peered (peered with other tier 1 servers in major network segments) and just refer requests either downstream or to other tier 1 servers. This is no longer as necessary with CDNs everywhere, and DNS infrastructure no longer has to mirror routing landscapes, but it seems that opennic.org is still organised in this way.

        Anecdotally, I switched a small network to use opennic in 2019 and it was a disaster, never again. I see that the DE servers are still being recommended to me in Canada, so I guess nothing has changed. Opennic is an example of a good idea with terrible execution.

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