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2009-12-03, 18:17

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Originally Posted by Banana View Post
Interesting. To be honest, I'd have expected DNS servers to be 2 or less hops away because DNS is probably most requested service compared to any other web services so naturally one would want fast resolution, and that can be had by reducing the latency (as well as having right hardware in place) and thus the hops needed to reach the DNS server.
But that would require proximity, i.e. for the ISP to set up hundreds of DNS servers.

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Originally Posted by alcimedes View Post
"The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using."

So you hit google's page any time from that IP that and they have your DNS searches tied to the permanent google cookie living on your machine and whenever that IP address overlapped with the DNS queries.
Fair enough. Doesn't really work so well, though — plenty of offices out there with dozens of people behind one single public IP address.
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