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Re:My DNS queries are being intercepted and altered in-flight by virtuallynathan on Sunday November 30, 2014 @08:14AM (#8676742)
OpenDNS uses edns-client-subnet, which passes the DNS client IP subnet (/24) with the recursion request. Google still knows you are on Virgin Media from behind OpenDNS.

http://www.afasterinternet.com/howitworks.htm

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Re:My DNS queries are being intercepted and altered in-flight by aaronmdjones on Sunday November 30, 2014 @08:21AM (#8676761)
Now THAT, is amazing - and perfectly explains what's going on. I operate several nameservers of my own for various domains, some owned by me, some not, and I'd not heard of that. I am happy with your answer, thanks!
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Re:My DNS queries are being intercepted and altered in-flight by rahimnathwani on Sunday November 30, 2014 @08:16AM (#8676748)
Yup. More info here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-clien...
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