[GRLUG] DNS in the router

[Bob Kline]

Re link, odd.  It was e-mailed to
me, and worked.

But what else to say.....

    -- Bob


On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=12dafb69d3c7cece&mt=application/msword&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui%3D2%26ik%3D5ec49a3471%26view%3Datt%26th%3D12dafb69d3c7cece%26attid%3D0.1%26disp%3Dattd%26zw&sig=AHIEtbRva5GTACvKJEpMUuyg7XIW9ykNcQ
> > The items in the piece above related
> > to /etc/resolv.conf seem clear enough,
> > but I never thought about the router.
> > How do these two interact?  i.e., what
> > gets resolved by the PC and what by the
> > router?
>
> I can't load the link. (It says my GMail account is offline, even
> though I'm writing this email through their web interface. I think you
> might have posted a session-specific link.)
>
> However, if your individual computer is configured to poll Google's
> DNS directly, then putting those DNS settings in your router box
> should have no effect on your individual computer.
>
> Still, if you put those settings into your router box, any _other_
> computer that attaches to your network will wind up using Google DNS.
>
> (This can happen one of two ways. Either the router uses DHCP to tell
> the individual computers to use Google directly, or the router does
> DNS query relay on behalf of the computers on the local network.)
>
> > I'm using Google's DNS service now
> > on my PC. I have no idea right now what
> > putting those same numbers in to the
> > router might accomplish - positively or
> > negatively - as in, what might I wreck?
> >     -- Bob
>
> At worst, you might have to reset your router's DNS settings in order
> for computers on your local network to resolve DNS queries.
>
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