On Friday, April 02, 2021 04:35:58 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 04:15:07PM -0400, 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? > > Regardless of whether the router's nameserver is forward-only or caching, > you would still need to put its IP address in the resolv.conf file of > each client that intends to use it. Normally this is done by advertising > it via DHCP. > > > 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?) > > You would be using the cached results stored by those external > nameservers. Those are *extremely* popular nameservers, so one may > assume they will have basically the entire Internet namespace cached > most of the time.
Thanks! I guess I phrased my question poorly -- I wondered if that would bypass the cache (if present) in the DSL modem?
