In my Network Settings in Windows, I've set my DNS settings to use addresses 192.168.2.239
and 192.168.2.238
. These are both non-existing DNS servers.
In cmd if I do
nslookup www.google.com
I get
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.2.239: Non-existent domain
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.2.238: Timed out
*** Default servers are not available
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.2.239
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.google.com
Addresses: 184.150.186.88, 184.150.186.84, 184.150.186.98, 184.150.186.103
184.150.186.93, 184.150.186.113, 184.150.186.123, 184.150.186.109, 184
.150.186.108
184.150.186.99, 184.150.186.119, 184.150.186.89, 184.150.186.114, 184.
150.186.118
184.150.186.104, 184.150.186.94
Also, tracert
is working.
My question is HOW? How is my ping successfully sending and getting back the messages if it has no DNS to work with?
Tracing route to www.google.com [170.100.15.22]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 13 ms 11 ms 11 ms bas7........com [xx.xxx.xx
.60]
3 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms agg1-.....net......ca [64.230.38
.52]
4 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms core3-xxxxxxxx02_xe0-8-2-0_core.net.bell.ca [64.
230.170.245]
5 22 ms 23 ms 23 ms tcore4-newyorkaa_hundredgige0-5-0-0.net.bell.ca
[64.230.79.148]
6 24 ms 21 ms 21 ms bx8-newyork83_bundle-ether2.net.bell.ca [64.230.
79.175]
7 190 ms 244 ms 191 ms 72.14.221.241
8 22 ms 22 ms 21 ms 216.239.50.108
9 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms 209.85.244.153
10 97 ms 98 ms 98 ms 209.85.252.95
11 106 ms 106 ms 106 ms 216.239.50.186
12 190 ms 223 ms 206 ms 216.239.57.126
13 125 ms 125 ms 125 ms 216.239.46.48
14 121 ms 121 ms 122 ms 108.170.245.49
15 123 ms 122 ms 122 ms 108.170.238.161
16 123 ms 124 ms 123 ms prg03s05-in-f4.1e100.net [172.217.23.196]
Trace complete.