By hosting my DNS server on the local network, I get almost instant lookups. Sites I visit often, like blogs, streaming services, or smart home dashboards, are cached locally.

My ISP is getting so heavily subscribed that i was wondering if it would be beneficial to not use the ISP DNS servers for DNS lookup and instead point my Lan to the main route DNS server they use ...

OK guys, need a little server help here. I'm running RH8 for DNS with BIND. The machine names are monica.yimmi.com and suzyq.yimmi.com.When I log in through a SSH, the prompt is root@monica root ...

We show you how to find the DNS server in Windows 11/10. You may need to know it while setting up a new network for your computer.

In my case, CenturyLink is our provider, and I likely hadn’t changed our DNS server numbers for as long as I can remember. But on my Mac laptop, I have messed with them at times just for that ...

Meanwhile, Alex Kac notes another solution for those using a Mac OS X box as a DNS server: "I use OS X Server as my DNS server for our network and out of the box it runs BIND 9.22.

Switching to a new DNS server might result in a snappier Internet. Kirk McElhearn explains how to edit your DNS settings, and how to know if you should.

In fact, it claims UltraDNS will be 46% faster than Google Public DNS (the DNS server my computer was using when I ran the test)—so it looks like I may just be switching yet again.