command to locate nameservers question

[Ben Pfaff]

"Don Chorman" <chormand@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> When I did a traceroute to 24.2.222.33 and 24.0.0.27, I get a wierd first
> hop:
> 
> # traceroute 24.2.222.33
> traceroute to 24.2.222.33 (24.2.222.33), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
>  1  * * *
[...]
> Whats up with the * * * ?

It means that the machine/router/whatever that received the UDP
packet on the first hop just dropped it instead of firing back an
ICMP packet.  This can be a bad configuration or buggy firmware
in the

> I was thinking about letting my machine as a caching DNS
> server. Do you think that this would be a good idea?

If name resolutions are slow then it's a reasonable choice.
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