Board:   [fsxNet] Retro Computing
Subject: Re: old inet = your own DNS?
From:    poindexter FORTRAN (21:4/122)
Date:    Sun Oct 25, 2026 08:56

-=> Nightfox wrote to phigan <=-

 Ni> I'm not entirely sure when using Google's DNS servers became a thing.
 Ni> It always used to be that ISPs had their own DNS servers (as you said)
 Ni> and the ISP's customers' connections would use the ISP DNS servers.

 They still do. I think it was a combination of poor perceived
 performance by ISP DNS and not wanting to give them any more
 information that drove people to third-party DNS.

 Remember, this started at a time when Xfinity was trying to figure out
 a way to charge by the client computer. They wanted to move you to a
 business account or figure out a way to charge more if you had lots of
 clients behind their firewall. You'd call in for support, one of the
 first questions was how many client PCs you had.

 That was when I got my first firewall - a WRT54G, and started playing
 with third-party OSes. Set my modem into bridge mode and told them I
 had one client - my firewall.


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