Don’t Use your ISP’s DNS or your Router as a DNS Address on any Machine. So why even bother with an ISP in the client? This is another good reason to ONLY use the internal DNS server in the VPN’s DHCP service for VPN clients.
Should router be the DNS server?
Most home routers are also actual DNS servers. (Although very basic ones: they usually only support forwarding the queries “upstream” to the ISP’s servers, and usually provide some amount of local caching. But that still counts as a “DNS server”.)
Can my router be my DNS server?
Yes, your router could in fact be acting as a DNS server. There are various reasons that it might be doing that, most of them related to speed.
Should I use 8.8 8.8 DNS?
That is not recommended and may even be a violation of your security policies, depending on the level of security required in your organization or by any governing agency. DNS forwarders that only point to 8.8. 8.8 are using your ISP connection to hop to 8.8.
Do DNS servers make WIFI faster?
Changing DNS servers can speed up the amount of time it takes to resolve a domain name, but it won’t speed up your overall internet connection.
