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> setting DNS servers statically on his clients instead of using DHCP. Yes, because these personal laptops end up being used in coffee shops or hotels on occas
by nanis 5y ago
> setting DNS servers statically on his clients instead of using DHCP.
Yes, because these personal laptops end up being used in coffee shops or hotels on occasion. So, whatever I do just on my home router doesn't help.
- fragmede 5y ago"On his clients" meaning his eg laptop. Personally my laptop uses its own preconfigured DNS servers, even (especially!) at coffee shops/etc because the coffee shop's DNS isn't to be trusted but more than that, they are frequently extremely slow. (It does take some fussing if there's a captive portal, but that's easy enough to handle.)
- nanis 5y ago> some fussing if there's a captive portal `example.com` comes in handy.
- XelNika 5y agoThat is fair, I suppose, but why use a different DNS server than the default for your home network? I still think there's something fundamentally wrong with a DNS configuration that breaks Windows connectivity tests. I do hope you're using something encrypted. Plain DNS can be redirected and manipulated quite trivially.