And for me the advantage is I get to have name resolution on my internal machines. On Sunday, July 05, 2015 14:57:22 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-06-22, Timothy Murphy > > <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: > > What is the advantage, if any, of running one's own DNS server? > > Surely the link between domain name and IP address must already have > > been established? > > As others have said, it depends on your circumstances and what you want > to achieve. In my case I run dnsmasq on my home network, configured to > use my ISP's DNS server as its upstream. For me the advantages are that > it allows me to address connected devices by name and to see at a glance > what devices are connected.