Having nothing better to do on a miserable Sunday afternoon I have been looking at the DNS addresses programmed into my Smarthub 6. I note that these are set to 212.159.6.9 and 212.159.6.10. As these are fixed I assumed that they would be locked to the original BT DNS addresses so was somehat surprised to note that these are listed by Plusnet as their alternative DNS servers. They don't feature in BT's list of DNS servers. Running GRC's DNS Benchmark identifies 212.159.6.10 as being the fastest available to me but 212.159.6.9 and Plusnet's default primary 212.159.13.49 don't feature in the top 50 fastest available.
As I set my DNS elsewhere this is purely academic for me but I still find it quite interesting that BT or Plusnet has changed the default DNS servers on my Smarthub from BT's to the Plusnet alternative pair. Unless some-one else has a different explanation?
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