On my routers PPPoE connection i have an option to enable "USE PEER DNS". A soon as I enable it my browser cannot resolve some addresses like https: websites (or it take a long time to resolve). Can someone inform me what does "peer dns" mean, and why the peer dns is not resolving the names.
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Pls help "peer DNS"
- Thread starter Jakes
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No idea, except maybe if "peer" in that context means your local lan/intranet sitting behind your router...? If that's the case, and you in fact don't run your own DNS server, then it will take longer to find a DNS server outside your lan to resolve domains names to IP addresses, and likely just timeout like you are seeing with the optioin enabled.Jakes said:
What make/model of router is this?
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"usepeerdns" is a configuration setting for PPPoE's pppd, which instructs your pppd to update /etc/resolv.conf with the addresses of your ISP's DNS servers.
In this case it will mean that the router will use the DNS servers configured by WBS. Normally this works fine.
To check if your DNS configuration works do the following at a Command prompt:
The response should be something like this:
In this case it will mean that the router will use the DNS servers configured by WBS. Normally this works fine.
To check if your DNS configuration works do the following at a Command prompt:
Code:
nslookup www.google.com
Code:
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.l.google.com
Addresses: 66.249.85.99, 66.249.85.104
Aliases: www.google.com