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> the company has no plans to switch Chrome users to its own DNS servers. Meanwhile, the Chromecast inexplicably ignores DHCP/NDP-provided DNS servers and uses
by profmonocle 7y ago
> the company has no plans to switch Chrome users to its own DNS servers.
Meanwhile, the Chromecast inexplicably ignores DHCP/NDP-provided DNS servers and uses 8.8.8.8 for all queries.
- the_pwner224 7y agoEven worse - it will disable itself if it cannot connect to 8.8.8.8. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671
- onlingyding 7y agoI don't think that's true anymore. I've blocked my Chromecasts accessing Google's DNS servers and then just fall back to the ones from DHCP.
- remus 7y agoWhen this came up on hn before someone from Google said it was because they'd had problems with malformed responses from other DNS providers.