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Re: Slow connections - DNS problems?



On Mi, 24 mar 21, 10:34:54, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 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 ;-)

This was likely set up by the Telus home router and provided via DHCP to 
all local systems.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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