Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router?
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoOf 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.
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.
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.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 weeks ago
Interesting. Thanks for the info. I’ll re-think whether I recommend it to random people around the world, then.
In Germany it’s great. I’ve been using it for many years now. But we have some good hacker organizations, digital sovereignty and privacy groups, nonprofits and some generous IT companies. Maybe it’s random private individuals in other countries and they’re not that reliable.
Seems right now there’s something going wrong anyway. I don’t think the amount of “offline” servers is normal. And a good amount of them isn’t even offline, but still answers my DNS queries.