DNS servers

For the heck of it today I ran DNSbench on 2 machines running Windows 10
10586.36, On both machines I found that I had only 1 DNS server on each
machine compared to my usual 2.
No big deal I installed another on each machine, Just another Windows
peculiarity.

Regards, Rene

On 2015-12-28, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
For the heck of it today I ran DNSbench on 2 machines running Windows 10
10586.36, On both machines I found that I had only 1 DNS server on each
machine compared to my usual 2.
No big deal I installed another on each machine, Just another Windows
peculiarity.

Regards, Rene

Thanks for the posting! I just checked & see that my DNS settings
also got mangled by the 10586 update.

My DNS setting is to use the router's ip as the "primary" DNS, then
OpenDNS & then Google. Win 10 messed it up to use a default of
getting the DNS passed from the router.

I already had to redo some of my privacy to unset them & now wonder
what else did m$ do to mess up my machine. Did find that the regedit
search goes into never-never land if the search doesn't find anything
either the 1st time or after a find again. I think there was another
command to edit the registry but will have to do a Google search.

"lew" wrote:
On 2015-12-28, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

For the heck of it today I ran DNSbench on 2 machines running Windows 10
10586.36, On both machines I found that I had only 1 DNS server on each
machine compared to my usual 2.
No big deal I installed another on each machine, Just another Windows
peculiarity.

Thanks for the posting! I just checked & see that my DNS settings
also got mangled by the 10586 update.

My DNS setting is to use the router's ip as the "primary" DNS, then
OpenDNS & then Google. Win 10 messed it up to use a default of
getting the DNS passed from the router.

This sounds like the upgrade (or whatever you want to call it) deleted the
network interface used by your older system and the re-discovered it, thus
reverting to the settings offered by the DHCP server in your router.

I already had to redo some of my privacy to unset them & now wonder
what else did m$ do to mess up my machine. Did find that the regedit
search goes into never-never land if the search doesn't find anything
either the 1st time or after a find again. I think there was another
command to edit the registry but will have to do a Google search.

Are you thinking of the REG command? And as a data point I've had no
problems at all with REGEDIT (caveat: I'm working exclusively with Win10
Enterprise), but if you do a full-Registry search of keys, data, and values
and don't check "exact match" the program will take a noticable amount of
time to complete...just like older Windows versions.

Joe

Rene Lamontagne wrote on 12/28/2015 4:30 PM:
For the heck of it today I ran DNSbench on 2 machines running Windows 10 10586.36, On both machines I found that I had
only 1 DNS server on each machine compared to my usual 2.
No big deal I installed another on each machine, Just another Windows peculiarity.

Regards, Rene
Ever try namebench to find a good DNS?
https://code.google.com/p/namebench/

Not that this fixes your issue, just a side note.

On 2015-12-30, Joe Morris wrote:
"lew" wrote:
On 2015-12-28, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

For the heck of it today I ran DNSbench on 2 machines running Windows 10
10586.36, On both machines I found that I had only 1 DNS server on each
machine compared to my usual 2.
No big deal I installed another on each machine, Just another Windows
peculiarity.

Thanks for the posting! I just checked & see that my DNS settings
also got mangled by the 10586 update.

My DNS setting is to use the router's ip as the "primary" DNS, then
OpenDNS & then Google. Win 10 messed it up to use a default of
getting the DNS passed from the router.

This sounds like the upgrade (or whatever you want to call it) deleted the
network interface used by your older system and the re-discovered it, thus
reverting to the settings offered by the DHCP server in your router.

I did an "update now" from microsoft using the mediacreationtool for
my desktop after creating an usb version. Interesting in that using
the usb flashdrive, the DNS setting didn't get mangled!

Think I'll be creating a usb version of any updates now.


I already had to redo some of my privacy to unset them & now wonder
what else did m$ do to mess up my machine. Did find that the regedit
search goes into never-never land if the search doesn't find anything
either the 1st time or after a find again. I think there was another
command to edit the registry but will have to do a Google search.

Are you thinking of the REG command? And as a data point I've had no
problems at all with REGEDIT (caveat: I'm working exclusively with Win10
Enterprise), but if you do a full-Registry search of keys, data, and values
and don't check "exact match" the program will take a noticable amount of
time to complete...just like older Windows versions.

Joe


I don't think that the time used when "not found" took around
10 minutes before; at least I didn't think that it took that long,
unless there is more garbage in the registry now..
Cancelling the search does a restart of regedit.

On 30/12/2015 17:02, Big Al wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote on 12/28/2015 4:30 PM:
For the heck of it today I ran DNSbench on 2 machines running Windows
10 10586.36, On both machines I found that I had
only 1 DNS server on each machine compared to my usual 2.
No big deal I installed another on each machine, Just another Windows
peculiarity.

Regards, Rene
Ever try namebench to find a good DNS?
https://code.google.com/p/namebench/

Not that this fixes your issue, just a side note.

"It hunts down the fastest DNS servers "
That's interesting, but there are other reasons too for choosing a DNS
over another one, like
reliability (fewer outages)
security (blocking malware sites).

On 12/30/2015 10:02 AM, Big Al wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote on 12/28/2015 4:30 PM:
For the heck of it today I ran DNSbench on 2 machines running Windows
10 10586.36, On both machines I found that I had
only 1 DNS server on each machine compared to my usual 2.
No big deal I installed another on each machine, Just another Windows
peculiarity.

Regards, Rene
Ever try namebench to find a good DNS?
https://code.google.com/p/namebench/

Not that this fixes your issue, just a side note.

Tried it and Dnsbech, Dnsbench is much faster, Both programs gave me
the same 3 fastest servers so they must both be pretty good

Regards, Rene

On 12/30/2015 12:10 PM, edevils wrote:
On 30/12/2015 17:02, Big Al wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote on 12/28/2015 4:30 PM:
For the heck of it today I ran DNSbench on 2 machines running Windows
10 10586.36, On both machines I found that I had
only 1 DNS server on each machine compared to my usual 2.
No big deal I installed another on each machine, Just another Windows
peculiarity.

Regards, Rene
Ever try namebench to find a good DNS?
https://code.google.com/p/namebench/

Not that this fixes your issue, just a side note.

"It hunts down the fastest DNS servers "
That's interesting, but there are other reasons too for choosing a DNS
over another one, like
reliability (fewer outages)
security (blocking malware sites).


Dnsbench and Namebench both check reliability and kick out poor ones.

Regards, rene