Board:   [fsxNet] Retro Computing
Subject: Re: old inet = your own DNS?
From:    Nightfox (21:1/137)
Date:    Sat Oct 24, 2026 16:45

  Re: Re: old inet = your own DNS?
  By: phigan to Malvinas on Sat Oct 24 2026 05:02 pm

 ph> Pretty sure all ISPs run their own DNS, people just have a lot of things
 ph> that default to Google's DNS.

I'm not entirely sure when using Google's DNS servers became a thing. It always used to be that ISPs had their own DNS servers (as you said) and the ISP's customers' connections would use the ISP DNS servers. And back in the 90s when dialup was common, I seem to recall it being common for ISPs to give instructions for setting up your internet connection with them, which included specifying their DNS server addresses somewhere in your internet connection settings.

Nightfox
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