What is the DNS of my IP?

Is 192.168 1.1 a DNS server?

168.

1 is a DNS server. It is used for the IPv4 host address 1.

There are a lot of different DNS servers out there on the internet. They can be used for name resolution, they can be used for IPv6 name resolution, or they can be used to domain name resolution. What's even more interesting is that you can use the same DNS server for all three things, and it's actually fairly common.

This is probably best explained by looking at a sample DNS zone file. First of all, we need to understand what a DNS zone file is. In this example, we'll have a single A record for google. Root 1260351562 3600 1800 604800 86400

@ IN A 192.1 @ IN MX 10 mail. Mail IN CNAME @. @ IN TXT "v=spf1 mx -all". Web IN CNAME @. Www IN CNAME @. @ IN MX 10 www.0 ns1 IN A 192.1 Note that this zone file has the following properties: It is using an "origin", which is defined as @ IN A 192. It is using a "SOA" record, which gives us the first line. The "SOA" record tells us that the DNS server is the root name server for the example.com top level domain.

It is using the "authority" format, which is described in more detail in the next section. It has two A records, one for www and one for mail. It has one CNAME record that's pointing to a subdomain, google. It has two MX records, one for mail and one for www. It has four TXT records. The first is for versioning. The second is for v=spf1. The third and fourth are for various things we'll get into later.

How do I fix my DNS problem?

I'm having a horrible time of it

I think that the DNS problem is a combination of the above factors.

I'm getting a different IP from my modem than the IP that appears on the status page for my modem. Also, I am unable to google.com for instance (when I do it says that "The connection has timed out, or the server at www.com is taking too long to respond.") I have tried unplugging the modem, rebooting and doing the same thing again. What's up with my DNS?

As far as the issue with my PC name not being updated on my router I've been following all the directions from my router to change the DNS info and the only thing I've gotten is an IP address that is not my router's IP. It was set to the IP address of my DSL modem when I set it up, so I'm really confused as to why it's not my router's IP address.

The most common cause of a bad DNS server is a software firewall running on the computer that needs to be reconfigured. A quick way to check this is to visit a site such as www.whatismydns.net and see what the ip address returned is. If it doesn't match the IP address assigned by your modem it's likely that your router is set to a DNS server other than what you want it to use.

The first thing I'd suggest is to reset your modem's IP settings. To do this on your router use the IP address displayed on the status page for your router and type that in the IP section of your router's configuration page. Make sure the IP address is set to DHCP.

If you get an error after resetting the IP address please post that in your next post. My router IP is set to static and I get the ip from my modem and its not my router IP so I don't know why it is returning that address for my PC name. Quote: Originally Posted by MihaiT. ? I'm having a horrible time of it. Thanks for all your help. I've made a couple of changes and I'm using the IP address that my router is using now. My PC name still isn't updating but I'm getting closer.

Edit: I got my PC name to show up on my router just now.

What is the DNS of my IP?

I have one server as a router with DHCP, and then I need to forward the internet through it to another server.

The only option I found is DYNAMIC DNS that automatically resolves ip to DNS-name. Is this the best way to forward?

It's not really a way to forward, since when you ask for a resource on the web, the first thing it does is use a request to see if there's a reverse DNS record associated with that IP address that matches the domain name or IP address the resource is on. If it has such a record, the request will fail (assuming your ISP doesn't allow it) because there is no such resource associated with the IP.

If the IP of your router is what you're referring to as "public IP", then yes, you want to set up the server for public access. If the IP isn't what you refer to as "public IP", and if the server isn't accessible from outside your network, then that means that other users in your network can access it. To protect it from outside access, you need to do one of two things: If you want to prevent others from getting to your DNS server via Internet requests, you need to place your DNS server inside a DMZ (firewall), where it can only be accessed from your internal network. Depending on your OS and the setup, this could mean placing it as a Linux system inside a DMZ.

You could give your external IPs internal addresses, in which case it will appear to anyone on your network as if the DNS server is local to the network.