On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > You misunderstand. That's not the resolver that Francois is using. > It's the authoritative name server for the domain he's trying to resolve > (maibokun.com). [...] > As a *workaround*, sure, he could use a public resolver like Google's > 8.8.8.8 as a sort of "proxy" that the Japanese name server is willing > to talk to. But short of that, he is completely cut off by the > router on the Japanese end.
Yep. So much for the Internet being a peer-to-peer network :-( So in the end I configured things to go through a public resolver (but not Google). And while I was at it I installed dnscrypt-proxy (which was in the news recently and which Bob Weber also mentioned). -- Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ 145 = 1! + 4! + 5!