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A comment on Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic. Parent comment

Re:Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic by kevincox on Friday August 21, 2020 @11:14AM (#24235551)
So how does it resolve com then? Or the (small number) of sites that are on the TLD.
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Re:Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic by boring_twenties on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:35PM (#24237601)
It doesn't. It's not a recursive resolver. It forwards qualified names (those including a dot) to the upstream nameserver (the ISP's).
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