How do you figure out what what your primary and secondary DNS is? March 8, 2010
Posted by Domena in : Computer Networking , trackback
I have a linksys router and can’t figure out what the primary and secondary dns are. Thanks!Submited by:Just Chil29
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Your primary and secondary DNS is the address of your ISP provider. If you do not know them and are trying to set up a modem router for example you will need to use a working computer to go to your providers website and look up router setup information. These settings can be found there.
Are you able to use DHCP? If you can, then you don’t even need to know that information.
If not, you can either:
a) Google it. There are listings for some of the larger ISPs.
or
b) Contact your ISP.
If you can use DHCP, but you would rather not, then here’s what I suggest:
Use DHCP to connect initially, and then go to Start->Run and type in`cmd.exe`
Run `ipconfig /all` and write down your DNS server addresses. Now that you know the addresses, you can turn DHCP off and enter the nameservers manually from now on.
I think cuz it tells you,lol