• hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Oh you mean DNS server, yes ok that makes sense. Yeah I totally understand running your own.

    If I understand correctly, DHCP servers just assign local IPs on initial connection, and configure other stuff like pointing devices to the right DNS server, gateway, etc

    • addie@feddit.uk
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      2 hours ago

      Sorry, putting the two things together, my mistake. My router doesn’t let you specify the DNS server directly, but it does allow you to specify a different DHCP server, which can then hand out new IPs with a different DNS server specified, as you say. Bit of a house of cards. DHCP server in order to be the DNS server too.