How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or full Internet access

Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by silisili on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:57PM (#33665901)

Howso? You still need internet access to hit the recursive.

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by zinekeller on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:59PM (#33665926)

Mindless routers (which are frighteningly many) that cache the results and won't show the true state of upstream connection, which is an important thing. There are a lot less transparent HTTP proxies that wouldn't respect no-store than mindless routers trying their best to cache results.

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by sk5t on Friday November 18, 2022 @11:18PM (#33666881)

Don't need internet access to read a cached record from a DNS service on localhost, on the LAN, etc.

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