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Re: Slow connections - DNS problems?



On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 09:24:28AM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
> 
> On 24/03/2021 05:32, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

[...]

> > # Generated by NetworkManager
> > search telus
> > nameserver 192.168.0.1
> > nameserver 75.153.171.122
> > nameserver 2001:568:ff09:10a::56
> > # NOTE: the libc resolver may not support more than 3 nameservers.
> > # The nameservers listed below may not be recognized.
> > nameserver 2001:568:ff09:10b::122
> >
> > My home router (supplied by Telus, notice the "search" line)
> 
> Just another point to add to what other people are saying. This line
> looks a bit suspicious to me. The "search" line is _supposed_ to be a
> list of domains which your computer is part of. It's implemented such
> that, when the resolver is asked to look up a short name (e.g. "printer"
> or "my-laptop" etc), then each item in the search list will be appended
> in turn and a lookup made. So, for example you could have "search
> example.com example.net" and a lookup for "gateway" would try
> "gateway.example.com" then "gateway.example.net" in turn.

[...]

Well spotted. The "search telus" looks completely bogus, too. Unless
you'have set up a local DNS with the "fake" TLD telus, but then, you'd
probably know ;-)

Cheers
 - t

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