Set DNS (same) in browser or network... or both?

[Bender Blues]

I've dug around for an hour, no joy.

Simply, if I'm using Quad9, do I set the same IPV4 dns on my network and browser? Or just the network? In Brave, the dns option is to let brave use my ISP for DNS or one of the others from the drop down list.

Quad9's not in the list, so it would be the 'custom' option.

Both or just on the network side? 

 

And bonus Q:   in W7 (just a garage laptop for work), should I keep IPv6 enabled and use quad9's IP6 address as well? Or disable IPV6. My gateway/ISP does use IP6 and I see network traffic on it.

I dont do any network sharing/printing etc, so what would you untick if your goal was speed (Wi-fi in the garage sucks strong connection but lacking, need speed here).

Not my illustration.

Thanks a ton! 

Cheers

 

 

[RockSolid1106]

7 minutes ago, Bender Blues said:

if I'm using Quad9, do I set the same IPV4 dns on my network and browser? Or just the network?

If you do it for your network, all traffic should route through the DNS server unless a device is explicitly configured to use a different DNS provider.

So if all applications are configured to use the system DNS, they will use whatever you set for your network.

[Bender Blues]

17 minutes ago, RockSolid1106 said:

If you do it for your network, all traffic should route through the DNS server unless a device is explicitly configured to use a different DNS provider.

So if all applications are configured to use the system DNS, they will use whatever you set for your network.

Thank you much! So I'll set it on the network side.

But in Brave, I got this. If I leave it to default, does that over ride the network DNS?

Or should I use custom and use the same DNS that I applied on the network?

 

Any thoughts on the IPv6 enable/disable at the network?

Brave:

 

[Deeya]

Just set up the DNS on your router. That top option is worded to make me assume it should use whatever is set by the router.

 

If you really want to get fancy setup pi-hole ( https://pi-hole.net/ ) on a device and have your router point to that as your DNS server.