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Originally Posted by zx10guy
(Post 8980345)
What Steve Gibson is referring to is the router acting as a DNS proxy where it supplies its own internal IP as the DNS server for all attached LAN devices. While Steve may have a point, I find it really hard to believe for a typical home, the router would be a bottleneck with DNS resolution.
Anyways. With respect to the question about "Always Broadcast", I think this refers to the router's internal DHCP server. If it is tied to the DHCP server, the Always Broadcast should really be labeled Enable. On the question of WINS, this is a throwback to when Windows used WINS for it's name resolution service; hence the acronym WINS or Windows Internet Naming Service. Because Windows has now reverted to Active Directory which primarily uses DNS, WINS has been relegated to a historic relic of the past. Back to original question, if you want to adjust the DHCP parameters to issue your ISP's DNS server versus using the router, you'll need to see if you can set that in the DHCP settings. You need to look for a field for DNS just like there is a scope or range you can enter for the addresses the DHCP server would issue. If there is no provision to do this, you might want to try going into the IPv4 properties of your PC and changing the DNS settings from get automatically to manual. The fields for DNS will not be grayed out anymore and you can enter the ISP's DNS there. |