set DNS on laptop or router?

[ringo747]

Hi guys,

Been looking over a lot of threads here in this forum about using opendns. I am with onetel and I think their DNS servers are crap. I discovered in my mac network preferences that I had overridden the DNS setting to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2. I have no idea where these came from but I am guessing it is something similar to openDNS. The question is should I be setting this on my mac laptop or in my router?

I have found the following dns addresses for openDNS
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

AFAIK my router is set up to get DNS automatically from ISP. If they are crap then should I change them in the router? Would this provide better performance that setting them in the laptop and overriding the router settings?

Thanks

 

[ringo747]

ok cool - so there is no real disadvantage to having it set to override the router rather than setting it in the router itself?

I noticed the problem initially when I deleted the DNS server entries from my network config on the mac. It worked really fast at the start on sites I visit often but when trying unvisited sites sometimes it timed out and had to refresh a few times before the page would display. I am guessing this is purely down to the onetel DNS servers being ropey.

Is openDNS the recommended solution?

 

[ringo747]

Ah right cheers for the info - I know nothing about this so 'overriding' was purely an assumption! Have changed this in the router and will see how it goes. I take it most people would recommend using openDNS or is it only if your ISP isn't up to it? Thanks for the help.