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Does Grandma have a small WiFi router that her cable modem is plugged into? Well that device provides local DNS for her.
by whoopdedo 7y ago
Does Grandma have a small WiFi router that her cable modem is plugged into? Well that device provides local DNS for her.
- dreamcompiler 7y agoNot true. In the default case, Grandma's wifi router is just passing along -- via DHCP -- the IP address of the cable company's DNS resolver to Grandma's computer. Which the wifi router itself probably obtained via DHCP or a similar mechanism from the modem. This is in no sense a "local DNS resolver." If Grandma has a grandchild that knows how to set up a PiHole, it's a different story. But that's certainly not the majority of Grandmas or the majority of wifi routers.