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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
6 years ago

A Netgear router and 3rd party DNS..

A question for MarkJFine , or others who know...   I'm adding my Netgear router back into the mix to monitor my total data usage.  As in HT2000W >  Netgear Router > All Devices.  Just as when I'm o...
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    MarkJFine
    6 years ago

    If you set the 2000W to all-8s (and 8.8.4.4) and everything after it to automatic (or, use ISP) they will all use Google's DNS.

     

    Disclaimer: I know you have good results and prefer it, but I have had a much higher incidence of corrupted and spoofed DNS entries when I used to do that. Just be cautious and remember that HN's is protected from that within their own network.

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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV

MarkJFine 

 

What are your thoughts on OpenDNS?

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MarkJFine
Professor
6 years ago

Not a fan of any of them. All the publicly accessible DNSs are greatly subject to attack and spoofing.

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    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV
    6 years ago
    MarkJFine wrote:

    Not a fan of any of them. All the publicly accessible DNSs are greatly subject to attack and spoofing.

    Ah.  That makes sense.  Thanks again.