Comments on: Outsource your DNS to make your Internet connection more reliable

By: joseph

joseph — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 19:08:07 +0000

Another instructive article for my Farquhar file. Over the years, I have collected a number of them.
Thanks.

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:44:25 +0000

In reply to Francisco. Excellent question. Put it in the router if you can, but not all routers will let you. If your router won't take custom DNS settings, by all means put the revised DNBS settings in a desktop PC. I would be more hesitant to hardcode DNS on a laptop or tablet or phone I take elsewhere.

By: Francisco

Francisco — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:37:38 +0000

Do you put the DNS’s sddresses directly in the router and point your PC’s to it or do you put them directly on the individual PC’s?

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:30:01 +0000

In reply to David Blodgett.

Great question, as some CDNs do use the DNS to determine where you are rather than your address. The DNSs I ended up using almost all turned out to be in Chicago, just like my ISP’s servers anyway, so I haven’t noticed a problem.

If you want to be really safe, look at the actual hostnames of the DNS (which you can sometimes see), and pick servers that are in or near your city.

By: David Blodgett

David Blodgett — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:46:01 +0000

Hi Dave,

Any thoughts on having your DNS not know where you are geographically might slow down data from content delivery networks?