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aeden on March 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Worldwide DNS Performance

The tests appear to be looking at a subset of authoritative DNS providers, hence OpenDNS (and Google Public Resolvers), which are resolvers, not authoritative name servers, are not present.

cbd1984 on March 26, 2015 [–]

I'm trying to understand here: Aren't Google's Public Resolvers authoritative for the domain names Google itself owns?

aeden on March 26, 2015 | [–]

I'm fairly certain their resolver name servers are separate from their authoritative authoritative name servers.

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