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> nobody can log and aggregate the queries you run So who do you forward your queries to? :)

• lykr0n 9y ago
  The root servers. http://www.inetdaemon.com/img/dns-hierarchy.gif http://www.inetdaemon.com/img/dns-hierarchy.gif
• krylon 9y ago
  A recursive resolver does not need to forward queries. ;-) Conceptually, it starts with the root nameservers and works its way up - dot by dot, recursively, hence the name - until it finds the domain the host in question in it, then asks the nameservers for that zone and caches the result. It is possible - with BIND9 at least, but I guess other DNS servers offer similar capabilities - to use forward servers for convenience/caching or to redirect queries to specific servers depending on the name in the query. But it is not mandatory.
  • bjpbakker 9y ago
    True, seems I read over the recursive part. In which case it is definitely not easy to set up. But even for a recursive DNS server that is only used by a single client aggregation for popular dains is not impossible. There are better and definitely easier ways to have anonymous DNS lookups