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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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MarkJFine
Professor
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.

  • GabeU's avatar
    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV
    6 years ago

    MarkJFine 

     

    Thanks for the router help, and the info about Google's DNS.  I mainly started using it due to problems I was having with a few websites, with Amazon being the main one.  The web pages would either not open at all, or they'd open, but with large parts of the page not loading, or loading in a faulty manner.  A DNS flush would often fix the problem, at least for a little while.  After I changed to Google's DNS I rarely had the issue(s), and on the occasion that I would switch back to HughesNet's DNS the problem would rear it's head again within a few days.  Because of that I finally just stuck with Google's DNS permanently.  

     

    I do trust you about these kinds of things, and you know a heck of a lot more about them than I do, so maybe it's time to give HughesNet's DNS a try again.

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    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV
    6 years ago

    MarkJFine 

     

    What are your thoughts on OpenDNS?

    • MarkJFine's avatar
      MarkJFine
      Professor
      6 years ago

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

      • GabeU's avatar
        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.