Most of SOHO class routers\modems don't offer fully-fledged DNS server and domain name caching features.Sort of building on this question, and just trying to educate myself, if the DSL modem had a caching nameserver: 1) would your computer need to specify the IP of that modem (presumably) 192.168.1.254 to take advantage of the caching?
Yes, it would be bypassed since you asking completely different domain name server to resolve your DNS requests.2) would the caching feature be bypassed if your computer used the public DNS name servers (e.g., 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, and 1.1.1.1)? (Or if they were listed before the modem IP address?)
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