Greece DNS Propagation Checker
Run a DNS lookup against 6 resolvers located in Greece — Thessaloniki · Athens · Argos · Keratsini · Heraklion · Ilioúpoli.
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Thessaloniki
Greece
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Athens
Greece
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Argos
Greece
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Keratsini
Greece
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Heraklion
Greece
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Ilioúpoli
Greece
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What checking DNS from Greece tells you
A DNS resolver keeps a cached copy of each record for as long as its time-to-live allows, and does so separately in every location. A change you have published can be live on one resolver while another still serves the old answer.
Checking from Greece looks up the record on servers inside the country, so you see what people there actually get rather than what a resolver on another continent returns.
This matters most right after you edit a record: an update visible on a global resolver like 8.8.8.8 can still be stale at a local ISP in Greece until its cached copy expires. The check confirms the new value has reached the resolvers your Greece visitors depend on.
Greece enforces two separate blocklists, and both land mostly at the DNS layer. The Hellenic Gaming Commission (EEEP) keeps a blacklist of unlicensed gambling sites that has grown past 11,000 domains, and a copyright committee known as EDPPI, seated at the Hellenic Copyright Organisation, issues administrative orders — no court hearing required — telling ISPs to block piracy and live sports-streaming sites. OTE/Cosmote, Vodafone and Nova carry these out largely by tampering with the answers their own resolvers return.
That is why checking a domain from inside Greece is worth doing. For an ordinary record it shows what the resolvers most households actually use — the ones their access provider hands out, not a public option they picked — are returning. For anything that might sit on a blocklist it shows whether the local answer has been rewritten, which a query to 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 from outside the country will never reveal.
- OTE / Cosmote195.170.0.1 Incumbent; default resolver for most fixed-line homes
- Vodafone Greece213.249.17.10 Second operator; enforces gambling and copyright blocks
- Nova (ex-Forthnet)193.92.150.1 Third fixed-line ISP, former Forthnet network
Greek ISPs enforce state gambling (EEEP) and copyright (EDPPI) blocklists mainly at the DNS layer, so resolver answers inside Greece can be altered for blocked domains and differ from global resolvers.
How DNS propagation works
Every DNS record carries a time-to-live: the seconds a resolver may keep its cached answer before asking again. Change a record and resolvers holding the old value keep serving it until that timer runs out.
Propagation is this expiry playing out across many independent resolvers, so a lower time-to-live set ahead of a change makes it take effect sooner. There is no fixed waiting period — each record's time-to-live decides how long the old answer lingers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do DNS servers in Greece return different results than 8.8.8.8?
Two things cause it. Each resolver caches independently, so one can hold an older answer than another.
And content delivery networks reply based on where the asking resolver is, steering a resolver in Greece toward a nearby edge node.
Both answers can be correct at the same time for their own location.
How long until a DNS change is visible in Greece?
It depends on the record's time-to-live, not on the country.
Resolvers in Greece keep the previous answer until their cached copy expires, then pick up the new one.
If you lowered the time-to-live before making the change, it appears sooner; otherwise the old value can persist until the original timer elapses.
Which DNS server should users in Greece use?
For most people the resolver their internet provider assigns is fine and usually the lowest latency.
Anyone who wants an alternative can point to a public resolver reachable from Greece, such as Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) or Google (8.8.8.8); the right choice depends on whether you value speed, privacy, or filtering.
Why check DNS from Greece specifically?
Because it shows what visitors in Greece actually resolve, which can differ from a global lookup.
If your audience is in Greece, or you have moved hosting or mail there, checking against in-country resolvers confirms the records have reached the servers those users rely on.
Why does a gambling or streaming site resolve differently on a Greek ISP?
Greece runs two blocklists. The EEEP list of unlicensed gambling sites now covers roughly 11,000 domains, and separately the EDPPI committee (created by Law 4481/2017, under the Hellenic Copyright Organisation) issues out-of-court orders to block piracy and live sports streaming. Cosmote, Vodafone and Nova implement most of these at the resolver, so a listed domain returns a rewritten or empty answer on their DNS while 8.8.8.8 returns the real record. Checking from inside Greece is how you see which side of that line a domain is on.
Which DNS resolver does a typical Greek connection use?
Whatever the access provider assigns. On fixed lines that is normally OTE/Cosmote (195.170.0.1), Vodafone on the panafonet.gr network, or Nova on the former Forthnet range (193.92.150.1). Very few households switch away from these defaults, so the incumbent resolvers are what most records are actually served from in Greece — which is exactly what a check from a Greek vantage point reflects.
