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by nanis 1742 days 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.
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fragmede 1742 days 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.)
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nanis 1742 days ago
> some fussing if there's a captive portal

`example.com` comes in handy.

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XelNika 1742 days ago
That 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.

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