what dns servers should i give my xbox

[Viking1237]

on my router info and stuff it shows two dns servers it uses now those are what i plugged into my xbox are these the best option to use or is there a way to find better ones. now anyone who can explain dns servers and stuff or what i should do it would be apprecialted

or should i just give it googles public ones i read a lot that people have benefitted from this

 

[Guest]

on my router info and stuff it shows two dns servers it uses now those are what i plugged into my xbox are these the best option to use or is there a way to find better ones. now anyone who can explain dns servers and stuff or what i should do it would be apprecialted

You can try using public ones like GoogleDNS, just search on google for how to set that up.

There are also numerous tools on the internet to benchmark your ISPs DNS servers with Google and other free public DNS to show you which is the fastest.

 

[noidea_77]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_server
The xbox get's your router address as the dns server address.

 

[Viking1237]

what site could i use to benchmark them

 

[ubercake]

Are you using static IP addresses? Have you restricted the DHCP IP range on your router and exceeded the connection count?

If not, set everything to Automatic on the Xbox. If that doesn't work, you can always use the same DNS servers that appear on your router as the DNS servers on your xbox.

 

[Viking1237]

what site or something could i try to benchmark them

 

[Viking1237]

my problem is not automatic or anything its more of curiosity of what dns does and how to get the best one for me

 

[noidea_77]

my problem is not automatic or anything its more of curiosity of what dns does and how to get the best one for me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_server and there is no best one for you. Use the one you router gets from your provider.

 

[ubercake]

DNS maps an alphanumeric web address (or URL) to its ipV4 or ipV6 address equivalent through massive translation tables.

One example:

www.tomshardware.com=23.62.236.112

So when you type www.tomshardware.com, this translates to 23.62.236.112. It allows for people to easily access things on the web by common names rather than us all having to memorize numeric strings (or in the case of ipV6, alphanumeric strings). It's good for marketing too since you can simply tell someone "Go to tomshardware.com" instead of saying "OK... Are you writing this down?... Go to 23.62.236.112... Did you get that?"

The ip address is like a house address or house number for a server which fulfills a web request on the internet. DNS takes the number and makes it more like a name. There are entries on public DNS servers for each web site out there. These entries are replicated across public DNS servers on the internet.

DNS can also be set up for intranets/private networks, but the DNS servers within the scope of the XBOX connection are public.

Hopefully, that helps you in your understanding.