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don't compare it to a public resolver like 1.1.1.1.

It's authoritative name servers for your domain. Compare it to AWS Route 53, Akamai Edge DNS, IBM NS1.

I raised the comparison to distinguish between authoritative and recursive resolvers, since the parent's question was ambiguous: "So is this just a dns service?".

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