So... Using the 1.1.1.1 cloudfire dns.... A question..

[faslanetech]

hello all, so I know that this new (not really new) DNS 1.1.1.1 has been widely used and recommended by many for a little bit of a speed boost in connectivity etc. what my question is, when I enter this DNS do I need to just enter it on my PC on the proper land or Wi-Fi adapter or do I need to enter it at the router cable modem level or all of them? This is always confused me and I don't want to run just the app like you can on Android for instance. but I don't know if I need to change it on all my devices, my modem, router, and then on my LAN adapter and Wi-Fi adapter in my computer also. can anyone shed a little light on it for me? I'm thinking that if I just enter it on my louder than it should cover everything set the router connects to you but I'm not sure either so I'm hoping to get some expertise on the subject. I've googled and searched for it but I haven't really got many answers as far as what devices you need to add it to for it to become most effective so I'm hoping some of them Pro geeks here can help me out of this 🙂 thank you all hope you're having a great weekend and I look forward to any answers and appreciate your time and doing so. and one more little PS, would you recommend this DNS or the Google 8. 8. 8. 8 DNS?

Thank you
Faslane

 

[bill001g]

Ping both and see which responds faster. The IPs of both are duplicated in many cities but I think google has more servers. Not sure who spies everyone know google loves to track things.

It should work the same no matter if you put it in every device or the router. What you need to do is make sure the router give the end station this ip for the DNS rather than its own on dhcp requests. Many routers run as a proxy and that has bugs at times. In theory it is faster but since thing like google dns servers are so close it is very fast and not worth the risk of a bug in the dns cache routine in the router.

 

[faslanetech]

Ping both and see which responds faster. The IPs of both are duplicated in many cities but I think google has more servers. Not sure who spies everyone know google loves to track things.

It should work the same no matter if you put it in every device or the router. What you need to do is make sure the router give the end station this ip for the DNS rather than its own on dhcp requests. Many routers run as a proxy and that has bugs at times. In theory it is faster but since thing like google dns servers are so close it is very fast and not worth the risk of a bug in the dns cache routine in the router.

Thank you. My router definitely doesn't run it's own proxy anything. I've never had any "bugs" etc in the DNS cache routine or I'd definitely not be using anything but the ISP DNS entries. +1

 

[bill001g]

By default almost every router is running a proxy. If you look at the ipconfig data you get from dhcp the dns server is set to the router IP. If not then you configured it to send a actual DNS in the dhcp setting on the router. There might be some routers that do not work that way but since the manufactures assume people are too stupid to setup the DNS server they just send the routers IP and the forward it to whatever dns they got from the ISP on the wan interface

 

[faslanetech]

By default almost every router is running a proxy. If you look at the ipconfig data you get from dhcp the dns server is set to the router IP. If not then you configured it to send a actual DNS in the dhcp setting on the router. There might be some routers that do not work that way but since the manufactures assume people are too stupid to setup the DNS server they just send the routers IP and the forward it to whatever dns they got from the ISP on the wan interface

Correct, mine is not running a proxy as mentioned previously 🙂 I know all this, my question is if I need to add the cloud fire or Google DNS to just the ethernet adapter or at the router level itself to have it stick so to speak network-wide. Someone said just doing it on the computers ethernet adapter should suffice but I'm more inclined to think that doing it at the router would ensure everything that the router connects to is also using the alternate DNS but I wasn't sure.

 

[bill001g]

The end device always overrides. The reason you would put it in the router is because some devices are a hassle to set it manually. It is mostly just making sure they end devices are properly set via dhcp.

 

[faslanetech]

The end device always overrides. The reason you would put it in the router is because some devices are a hassle to set it manually. It is mostly just making sure they end devices are properly set via dhcp.

Okay cool, so I should do it at the ethernet adapter properties. Correct? That's not exactly what I would call a pain it's actually only a couple steps to get there ;-) in fact it's harder to do it at the router level not that it's hard or anything but there's more steps to it. Thank you very much 🙂

 

[bill001g]

A pc or even a cell phone is easy. Some of those crazy thermometer or lights are not as simple