On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Ian Blackwell <ian at ikel.id.au> wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> Question: The next time I connect our Backup IPCop box, should I put >> the 2 IP addresses for opendns.com there, or, the IP of our ADSL >> Modem? Which will be faster? If I understand, you have the IP >> addresses in your IPCop box and that bypasses your ADSL Modem. >> TIA, Lanny >> > My advice is to forget DNS on the modem because it won't be more up-to-date > than the cache on the IPCop server, so it won't serve any useful function. > Set the IPCop box to use the IP addresses provided by opendns.com. It will > cache DNS query results and contact the opendns servers when it needs to > refresh expired data or get new data not already in the IPCop cache. The > modem can't help in this scenario, so leave it alone and bypass it by > telling IPCop to go directly to opendns for DNS queries. That is what I thought, from reading what you'd written previously, but I wanted to confirm that with you. I will try that, on our Backup IPCop box, when the other users are not online. Thanks!