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[madswitcher]

Hi Ian,

if you want to experiment and find out more about Internet protection, you could try building yourself a firewall that goes between your internal network and your router.  You only need an old PC of some kind and two NICs (Ethernet cards) to give a substantial increase in protection,  proportional to a home user.  Its a useful learning excercise in itself - another educational tangent . 

There are several of these out there - a popular one is 'Endian', but there are others based on IPCop.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[ruffrecords]

Thanks PRR for the valuable info. (Un)fortunately I run Linux so this info is not much help to me.

Cheers

Ian

 

[PRR]

> (Un)fortunately I run Linux so this info is not

Bah. MS could not get TCPIP to work reliably, they stole their good code from a *nix. The configuration screens put the tabs in different places but do the same things.

http://ask.xmodulo.com/configure-static-dns-centos-fedora.html

This screen shows IPv4 getting IP via DCHP (automatic from router), but DNS look-up from Google's DNS.

Search Domains is rarely set today. DCHP ID matters only if your DCHP server hands-out different classes of service; factory-only or whole-Web. Routes don't matter for a home router.

 

[ruffrecords]

Thanks PRR. Added google DNS servers to my connection

Cheers

Ian

 

[PRR]

There's a new kid in town.

"Cloudflare touts privacy-friendly 1.1.1.1 public DNS service."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/03/cloudflare_dns_privacy/
https://1.1.1.1/

As you see from The Register's article, gift horses should be mouth-checked. However anybody who *hates* Google now has an alternate to their ISP's often-lame DNS.

Cloudflare's numbers:
14ms 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare)
20ms Cisco OpenDNS
34ms Google Public DNS
68ms Average ISP