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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by sokoloff on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:55PM (#33665894)
Unless you know what the DNS request is "supposed to return", you can't know that just getting any DNS response indicates that you have full Internet connectivity.
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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by silisili on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:59PM (#33665916)
They control the record contents just as they would some text in a file on some server, and could be checked in a similar manner.
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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by sokoloff on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:26AM (#33669510)
Sorry, you were imagining the use of a TXT record (I assume) and that would work better than an A record inquiry that I was considering.

It still wouldn’t find http filtering, but it would work better than I initially gave it credit.

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