[PLUG] Router address or DNS address? Dumbass question

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Sun Jul 2 01:32:50 UTC 2006


On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:04:51 -0700
Kris <krisa at subtend.net> dijo:

> Most consumer broadband routers have a features which proxies DNS.
> Typically your router will use DHCP to get an address from your ISP.
> This DHCP reply comes with the IP address, mask, default gateway, and a
> couple DNS servers.
> 
> Your router will then take any DNS request received on its internal
> interface and send it to the DNS addresses it received from DHCP,
> relaying the reply back to the internal host.

Ah, now I see what was going on. Thanks :)



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