[GRLUG] DNS in the router

[Michael Mol]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> 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

Right; I went ahead with the linguistic assumption that he was
referring to a SOHO router/multifunction network gateway box.

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