[Ham-Mac] Cool Free Utility called namebench

[John Merrill]

I guess I thought the router controlled the DNS but not.

Thanks,

John

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Dick Kriss <aa5vu at att.net> wrote:

> On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:01 AM, John Merrill wrote:
>
> > I assume you may not run your Mac through a router? If so  you would have
> > to change the router to the new DNS.
>
> John,
>
> I thought the same thing at first but I tried the namebench settings and
> they helped.  My router, gateway.2wire.net, is shown in the right side
> under Search Domains.  Maybe OS X uses the specified DNS servers rather
> than the settings in the router?
>
> I did not have to mess with the router settings to get the namebench
> suggested improvements. After changing to the namebench recommended
> settings and restarting, namebench came back with
>
>   "Your current primary DNS server is Fastest"
>
> Try it! The price is right and it may help.
>
> Dick AA5VU
>
>
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