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DNS question
07-09-2007 9:30 AM
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Apologies for the dumb question.
My connection has been getting slower and slower - often taking up to 15 secs to load a page and speed tests failing etc., so I thought I'd better check the dns settings on my router.
It's set up to obtain DNS settings automatically from the ISP.
Both the primary and secondary DNS were set to 212.159.6.10.
I guess this isn't right and have manually put in other DNS settings, but are there others who also are automatically getting 2 dns settings which are the same? Is this a problem at my end or at PN's?
My connection has been getting slower and slower - often taking up to 15 secs to load a page and speed tests failing etc., so I thought I'd better check the dns settings on my router.
It's set up to obtain DNS settings automatically from the ISP.
Both the primary and secondary DNS were set to 212.159.6.10.
I guess this isn't right and have manually put in other DNS settings, but are there others who also are automatically getting 2 dns settings which are the same? Is this a problem at my end or at PN's?
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Re: DNS question
07-09-2007 9:35 AM
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If your pc is set to obtain DNS automatically, it will get them from your router so I suggest you check that as well.
Normally your router will get 2 different IPs: 212.159.6.9 & 6.10 or 212.159.13.49 or 13.50
Normally your router will get 2 different IPs: 212.159.6.9 & 6.10 or 212.159.13.49 or 13.50
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Re: DNS question
07-09-2007 9:42 AM
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That's what I thought. It's the router that's getting the 2 same addresses.
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Re: DNS question
07-09-2007 9:44 AM
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Have you tried disconnection/reconnecting the router to see if it still gets the same single IP?
If it does raise a ticket as something is wrong.
Has changing the DNS manually speeded up your connection. If not try the following OpenDNS IPs (after doing the test above):
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
If it does raise a ticket as something is wrong.
Has changing the DNS manually speeded up your connection. If not try the following OpenDNS IPs (after doing the test above):
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
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Re: DNS question
07-09-2007 9:59 AM
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Yes it was after rebooting the router yesterday (several times) in an attempt to fix the slow loading problem that I found that the router was picking up the same dns.
Having changed the dns this morning it all works much, much faster - so it seems like my router has been "automatically" picking up the same dns for both slots from Plusnet.
Each time I've disconnected the router it's gone and picked up the same dns address for both slots. I got the different dns numbers from PN tech support this morning and they say the problem is at my end.
I'm not so sure.
Having changed the dns this morning it all works much, much faster - so it seems like my router has been "automatically" picking up the same dns for both slots from Plusnet.
Each time I've disconnected the router it's gone and picked up the same dns address for both slots. I got the different dns numbers from PN tech support this morning and they say the problem is at my end.
I'm not so sure.
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Re: DNS question
07-09-2007 10:01 AM
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The only thing I can suggest is to reset the router back to its factory defaults and set it up again. Sounds like something has got corrupted in the config.
You could also try a firmware upgrade if its not up to date and remember to do a factory reset afterwards.
You could also try a firmware upgrade if its not up to date and remember to do a factory reset afterwards.
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