[GRLUG] DNS in the router

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 13:58 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:

> How do these two interact?  i.e., what
> gets resolved by the PC and what by the
> router?

Haven't bothered with the link; but the distinction is simple - routers
do not use DNS.  The device that is your router may also be a DHCP
server in which case it will announce the configured DNS servers to
devices on your network [which is part of DHCP configuration].  But the
*router* does nothing with them.  

It is confusing to many people since their router / firewall / and DHCP
server [ or RA in the case of IPv6] are the same physical device; that
doesn't mean there is any intimate relationship between those
subsystems 


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