Hi there, I’m looking to get into self-hosting for privacy reasons and I wanted to ask y’all: how inadvisable is it to utilize an ISP-owned router/modem? I feel like they’re able to track everything I do online with their more than likely integrated spyware.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    17 hours ago

    Isn’t it a global effort? According to what I see, they list a bunch of servers in all Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, …Japan?!

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      17 hours ago

      Of the tier 1 servers, 2 are in DE and 2 are in USA.

      You won’t really hit tier2 unless you’re trying to hit very specific records.

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        7 hours ago

        I think the Tiers work the other way around. But I keep forgetting how DNS and recursive lookup works and I might be wrong.
        I don’t think you’re supposed to query Tier 1 servers as a client. The Tier 2 servers would be what people connect to and who do the heavy lifting. The Tier 1 just do the root, authoritative stuff and their custom TLDs for the following network. So we’re not worried about where those are located.