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Which IP address does a browser use if there’s more than one for the same URL?

Here's what I tested back around 2016: Your browser can do what it wants, and it's likely their behaviour may differ. Your browser can rely on the OS to provide it with an IP ("gethostbyname&...
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Set ufw to allow incoming traffic from common IPv6 prefix

While UFW could dynamically update its firewall rules according to the currently received prefix, as far as I know it doesn't have such functionality right now. At the underlying iptables/nftables ...
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When you clear "Cookies and other site data" in Chrome, are you clearing Chrome's DNS cache too?

DNS cache is entirely different from site data, and certainly different than cookies. The DNS entry of a site isn't attached to the site data. This is similar to the answer for your own Google Support ...
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Which IP address does a browser use if there’s more than one for the same URL?

In a nutshell there are two main mechanisms : DNS Round Robin is the main mechanism for choosing an IP address from the list returned by a DNS server, so that not all clients get the same IP address ...
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If I ping whateversite.com, what host am I pinging?

If I ping www.whateversite.com, I'm pinging the www host in the whateversite.com domain, right? That is kind of a simplification, but yes, close enough. If I ping whateversite.com, what host am I ...
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Which IP address does a browser use if there’s more than one for the same URL?

There is no strict rule, as all addresses are equivalent and the program can use them in any order. Usually programs try all addresses in the list until one responds. Values in DNS do not have an ...
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If I ping whateversite.com, what host am I pinging?

The first thing to clarify is that in DNS terms, while a "Host" address (eg A or AAAA record) CAN refer to an individual server (and traditionally did most of the time), it doesn't have to. ...
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Which Windows apps use the "DNS client" service?

I guess Windows apps like browsers, mail clients, etc have their own DNS clients (also called "stub resolvers") and therefore bypass Windows DNS client No, they very rarely do. It's mostly ...
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If I ping whateversite.com, what host am I pinging?

You could say you're pinging a host named "whateversite.com". There is a bit of overlap between 'hosts' and 'domains'. Any domain name at any level counts as a 'host' if it has any "...
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Which Windows apps use the "DNS client" service?

Which Windows 10 apps use the "DNS client" service? In layman's terms: all and none, the DNS clients is integrated into the TCP/IP stack (within the application layer). In principle all ...
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Why the download traffic towards my IP address is so slow? How to solve it?

I know this question won't be answered if i don't do it myself. so here i have a (hopefully temporary) very sad answer: "there's just nothing to do with it". Understanding that probably the ...
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Router has internet, does assign IPs to clients, clients can not browse or wget

on linux: clear arp cache ip -s -s neigh flush all clear dns cache: figure out which dns service you are using: sudo lsof -i :53 -S For systemd-resolve: $ sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches OR $ sudo ...
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Order of DNS resolvers or "exclusive" route adding in Mac OS X?

I had a similar problem on macos with a number of physical and virtual network interfaces and the need to request name resolution to different servers according to availability or unavailability of ...
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Translating a domain name into a IP Address

No - you can't translate a domain name to an IP address just by looking at the last ".". You also don't need to run tracert. This system does not work quite how I expect you think it ...
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DNS Leak Test via Command-Line

You can do it with this script. Download dnsleaktest.sh: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/macvk/dnsleaktest/master/dnsleaktest.sh -o dnsleaktest.sh Make it executable: chmod +x dnsleaktest.sh ...
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Sudden DNS timeouts with “Server: UnKnown” on Windows 10 home system

I have exactly the same problem, but with a Windows 7 machine. I've spent many hours looking for a solution: Driver updates, network commands, switching W-LAN/LAN, various "alive-tools", ...
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Plesk Obsidian: How to set up a sub-domain on a different Plesk server

It appears that the DNS configuration is mostly correct. However, there are a couple of things to double-check and consider: Propagation time: DNS changes may take time to propagate across the ...
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How can a faulty DNS entry in the router's RA cause WiFi disconnections on a phone?

This behavior seems logical from a phone that doesn't give up. As the router was still the source of the internet, the Pixel 6 phone was correctly trying to get IPv6 internet from an IP that however ...
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FileZilla Error: Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity, Could not connect to server Cloudflare Issue

It works if you connect to a VPN then try it. I connected to a VPN server in Netherlands, and then the connection worked.
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Is there a way to redirect DNS traffic to ssh tunnel

Thanks to Saaru's answer, I was able to get sshuttle to proxy only DNS requests with a command like the following: sshuttle --dns -r username@host \ --ns-hosts=dns01.example.com,dns02.example.com \...
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hostname does not resolve on LAN

Not exactly a solution but I am able to receive a response using the Fully Qualified Domain. When using "Ping Site1-Room1-HP" I also receive the unknown host error. When using "Ping ...
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ISP blocking alternative DNS?

It's easy enough to verify if your ISP blocks alternate DNS servers. On Windows run : nslookup -debug -type=TXT test.dns.google.com. dns.google. nslookup -debug -type=TXT -vc locations.dns.google.com. ...
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Firefox not working with my own DNS server, but everything else does

TL;DR You have to have these lines on your /etc/systemd/resolved.conf (where 1.2.3.4 is your own DNS server and 1.1.1.1 is a fallback) [Resolve] DNS=1.2.3.4 1.1.1.1 DNSStubListener=yes ...
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ISP blocking alternative DNS?

Could my ISP block for example port 53 unless it's routed to their own DNS server? Yes. It's just a basic firewall rule, either on the Mikrotik router or on their central firewall higher up. ...
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Using degraded feature set TCP instead of UDP for DNS server

I solved it by setting up DNSSEC on bind9 nameserver as per this rather old Digial Ocean tuorial (Note you need to preset the example.com.zone with your current forward zone file before the $INCLUDE ...
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Using degraded feature set TCP instead of UDP for DNS server

I solved it by setting up DNSSEC on bind9 nameserver as per this rather old Digial Ocean tuorial (note it will need a few tweaks - mainly use an existing zone file instead of the 1 liner they ...
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If I am connected with two network then which network will be used for communication?

In your example, any traffic out to the internet (or more specifically outside of either of the network ranges listed) will go via the Wireless connection, since that's the one where the Default ...
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