Does arpnetworks DNS not respond to recursive DNS requests? have local_unbound forwarding to it sorressean: which server and from where? recursive is normal for dns that would be the same as resolv.conf neemserver nameserver sorressean: the authoritave ns1.arpnetworks.com and ns2.arpnetworks.com should not respond to recursive queries http://support.arpnetworks.com/kb/main/dns-servers those ones are for customers and recursive lookups I was curious, does any incoming ARP traffic destined for Germany show up at LAX? Perhaps due to a shorter AS-Path germany ip addresses aren't advertised at LAX do the edge routers ever get confused when sending traffic between LAX and Germany as the source AS number and destination AS number are the same? yeah there was a slight issue with that originally now if you had your own backbone / dark fiber / mpls between the 2 cities that wouldnt have been a problem I dont think :-) you'd want it to be redundant though otherwise you still have the same issue