This is where Unbound DNS comes in. Unbound is a "local, validating, and recursive" DNS resolver, meaning it uses a built-in list of root nameservers that first solve the domains for the root hints (such as .net or .com) which then respond with a top-level domain that can then determine which authoritative servers are handling the specific domain you're looking for, and only after that does it ask that authoritative name server for the IP associated with that domain. This recursive approach abstracts your DNS queries so that your requests don't all go through a single server and log your inter
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