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orbi dns settings
I am running windows 10. If I set up the Orbi to use specific DSN server addresses and leave the Windows 10 IVP4 properties to obtain DNS server automatically, when I runthe DNSbench program, it sho...
Lenster45 wrote:If I change only the orbi to "Use these DNS Servers" and plug in the two open dsn server address, then all the non windows devices go to the designated servers and are noticably faster, but WIndows still uses 192.168.1.1 to go to my ISP.
How is this conclusion confirmed? When the Orbi is set to "use these DNS servers", that means for Orbi to ignore the DNS information provided by the ISP and use those specific IP's instead. However, any device that gets an IP address from the Orbi DHCP server will be told the DNS server is the Orbi. Wired or wireless, Mac, PC, or smart plug should make no difference. The Orbi does not hand out those DNS addresses via DHCP. I just set my Orbi DNS to 8.8.8.8. Disconnected and reconnected my Sony Android phone, and it came up with DNS 192.168.1.1, i.e. the Orbi.
Every device using DHCP to get DNS information should (1) go to the Orbi, and (2) the Orbi should relay to the DNS servers designated in the Orbi setup. (Of course, I believe that like Windows, the Orbi caches DNS search results and will continue to serve up recent searches until they time out.)
You are right, Android terminal emulator returns 192.168.1.1 to the command getprop net.dsn1 but the same webpage lookup on the phone is substantially faster when I set the open DNS servers names into the router than when I set the router to automatically get it from the ISP.
Windows nslookup also returns 191.168.1.1, but there is no lookup speed improvement until I set the openDNS names in the windows IVP4 properties.
Poor metrics I know, but that is how I came to my conclusions.
Anyway. it working with the fastest benchmarked DNS servers plugged into both the router and windows properties and I am happy with the results. Thank you all for your input
Enjoy. :smileywink:
