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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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