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Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
Authored by: bcamp1973 on May 04, '05 11:29:19AM

How do you go about checking to see if you have a local broadband router? I'm interested in doing whatever i can to speed up my experience, but i don't want to cause other issues in the process :)



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Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
Authored by: bcamp1973 on May 04, '05 11:34:13AM

Ok, i'm an idiot...nevermind. I wasn't paying attention to what i was reading. I do have a local router. However, its settings only refer to Dynamic DNS (DDNS). There are no settings for regular DNS. Does this mean the router doesn't have this functionality or is it just not adjustable/accessible?



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Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
Authored by: ghz on May 04, '05 01:28:59PM

most soho boradband routers do have dns service built in, and propagate themself as the local dns server in the dhcp lease..
usually this is a small caching dns forwarder.. (such as dnsmasq..)



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Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
Authored by: frogmella on May 05, '05 05:24:02AM

Best way to see if your local router does DNS is to do a verbose name query: from a terminal window, type:
host -v www.apple.com

The last line of this gives the DNS server you're using, for example:
Received 85 bytes from 192.168.0.1#53 in 24 ms

This is a 'private' IP address to your network (anything beginning 192.168. or 10. is) and will be only one digit different from the IP address of your Mac (found in Network Preferences) if it's using a local (router) DNS.

If you're using your ISP's DNS, it will be completely different, for example:
Received 85 bytes from 194.73.73.113#53 in 117 ms
- and this hint may well help you.



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