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[Quinn Wood <wood.quinn.s AT gmail.com>]

On Oct 15, 2014, at 16:13, Niles Rogoff <nilesrogoff AT gmail.com> wrote:

> It is possible to do this. Most routers allow you to set their forwarding 
> DNS server, if it only allows one server, you must make your own DNS 
> server. Otherwise, simply make a DNS server whose primary forwarder is 
> OpenDNS, and secondary is OpenNIC. If OpenDNS returns a NXDOMAIN, it should 
> move to OpenNIC.
> 
I believe typical resolver behavior is to return NXDOMAIN, not move on to the 
next server. The next server should only be queried if the first doesn't 
reply or my assumptions about resolver behavior are incorrect.