Pointing Windows 2000-based PCs to my ISP’s DNS servers

Pointing Windows 2000-based PCs to my ISP’s DNS servers

Hello James.

Yes, it is perfectly all right to point the PCs in your local area network to the DNS server of your ISP.  You can set it two ways:

1.  You can set it statically on each PC by modifying the newword properties and listing the DNS server IP address for both the primary and secondary DNS.

2.  You can set it dynamically by configuring the DHCP server function of your ADSL modem or router.

Since we are on the topic of DNS, I would like to suggest that instead of pointing the LAN PCs to your ISP's DNS server, you can point it to other DNS servers such OpenDNS or Google DNS.  Both provide additional security by blocking URLs that are known to host harmful content.

Hope this helps!

Pointing Windows 2000-based PCs to my ISP’s DNS servers

Hello friends, your comments are superb. Thank you for sharing this vital information with me. Also, I wish to thank everyone for informing me that it was important to point the PC’S in my local area network to the DNS Server of my ISP. I also buy your other idea of pointing my LAN to computers’ DNS. Through your recommendation, I have downloaded DNS Jumper application that you advised me to get. After installation, I feel my computer’s security has really improved, and at the same time my browsing speed has improved too. This information was really important to me and maybe a few others with similar problems. Thank you again guys and Techyv for this valuable information.