Experimenting with Alternate DNSs
Currently using CloudFlare: 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 2606:4700:4700::1111 2606:4700:4700::1001 Have set the router DNS as well as on devices (initially). Eventually I think the automatic should pick u...
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MarkJFine wrote:Eventually I think the automatic should pick up what the router uses, but haven't seen it do that yet.
I always wondered if that was happening for me when I'd try a different DNS, or just set my devices to Google's, which I normally use. I would set my HughesNet modem, or 3rd party router (not presently used), to Google's DNS, and then do the same with my devices, just to be sure. Of course, I can't set the IPv6 DNS servers in the HughesNet modem or my router, so I have to do it with my devices.
I've been reading about Cloudflare's DNS. It's fairly new, but people seem to like it thus far. I'll be waiting to see how it works for you. I tend to let those who know better than I give their opinion on things like this before I switch to them. I did the same with uBlock Origin.
Seems to be fast, but am having a problem with Bing this morning... but that could just be Bing being Bing.
Edit: ...which it was. Seems ok now at 0735.
Well, I caved. I decided to try it. I set IPv4 and IPv6 back to automatic in my desktop, and set my HughesNet modem's IPv4 DNS to Cloudflares. I flushed and renewed the DNS cache in my desktop (rather than restarting it) and, amazingly, it does seem to be faster. And this is on a Sunday evening, when everybody and their brother are trying to stream a movie and my overall speeds are down a good amount because of it.
I ran nslookup to be sure my modem was using Cloudflare, and though the default server didn't quite match what it showed in an article, it was close. The article said it should show "1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com", yet mine showed "one.one.one.one". The article was from April 5th, so maybe it's been updated since then.
I'm a little confused about the whole IPv4 and IPv6 thing, but the article said that if my "router" only had settings for IPv4, which is the case with the HughesNet modem, it would be fine. It said the following... "It's worth noting that you don't need to apply the IP version 6 addresses on your router if your network is already using IP version 4." I guess this is the case if I use the IPv4 version, which is the only one I can use in the HughesNet modem, right?
We'll see how it goes.
Does yours show the same?
I don't have the same level of knowledge and experience about this stuff to try this - the last time I tried a change my network didn't care for it at all. Herp derp.
