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Post by Crash2009 » Mon Sep 15, 2014 3:40 pm

I have a DNS question. Is it incorrect of me to point my HTPC's NIC at my router's IP, then point my router to the DNS server's IP?

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Post by STC » Mon Sep 15, 2014 6:12 pm

Crash2009 wrote:I have a DNS question. Is it incorrect of me to point my HTPC's NIC at my router's IP, then point my router to the DNS server's IP?
Nope that's fine. The lag introduced by a query from your router and back is negligible and can actually be faster.
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Post by Crash2009 » Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:33 pm

STC wrote:
Crash2009 wrote:I have a DNS question. Is it incorrect of me to point my HTPC's NIC at my router's IP, then point my router to the DNS server's IP?
Nope that's fine. The lag introduced by a query from your router and back is negligible and can actually be faster.
OK, thanks.

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Post by STC » Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:05 am

^ and before I get burned down in flames I'm talking cached routes for your LAN ;)
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Post by Crash2009 » Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:13 am

STC wrote:^ and before I get burned down in flames I'm talking cached routes for your LAN ;)
Sounds like your advice would be different if one was using Static rather than DHCP Routes?

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Post by STC » Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:07 am

We're getting off topic.- I'll move these posts in a bit-

I'm referring to a basic routing If you have one central 'hub' for all queries to get answers and it's inside your LAN. An example would be shall we say a query for facebook.com. Once one LAN member has asked for the address, it will be cached for a certain period on the router so that any other member of your LAN asking where facebook.com is will get the cached address speeding up their query.

Horses for courses though really.
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Post by Crash2009 » Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:38 am

STC wrote:We're getting off topic.- I'll move these posts in a bit-
Are you talking about ipconfig /displaydns the resolver cache? I agree, It would be nice if that was on the router. Maybe that's what these 2 files on the router are for:

Custom configuration file "dnsmasq.conf"

Custom configuration file "hosts"

They are located on the same page as where I enter the DNS Server info.
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