On 03.04.2021 01:15, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
Sort of building on this question, and just trying to educate myself, if the
DSL modem had a caching nameserver:
1) would your computer need to specify the IP of that modem (presumably)
192.168.1.254 to take advantage of the caching?
Most of SOHO class routers\modems don't offer fully-fledged DNS server
and domain name caching features.
They act as relays, simply redirecting DNS requests to the nearest
configured domain name server.
But if some device offers such features like domain name caching, then
yes, you will have to specify the IP of that device to take advantage of
the caching.
2) would the caching feature be bypassed if your computer used the public
DNS name servers (e.g., 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, and 1.1.1.1)? (Or if they were
listed before the modem IP address?)
Yes, it would be bypassed since you asking completely different domain
name server to resolve your DNS requests.
An example: If you have a local network with a several hosts and want to
address these hosts by their domain names,
you will have to setup local domain name server which will resolve local
domain name requests and redirect non-local domain ones.
In this case, you will have to specify only one IP address of that local
DNS, because public domain name servers don't know anything about host
names in your local domain.
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