IP adresses

[Old J]

Quick question. The R2 always give my PC the same IP. Is this normal behaviour? Even if i relase and renew in CMD its still the same IP everytime.

 

And i also wonder: Does DNS has ANYTHING to do with ping and gaming? My understanding is that its not relevant at all, but yet i see so many forum posts saying you should change your DNS when playing Valorant specifically. 

[Fuzy]

Hi,

Seems to me this is normal behavior, the OS cache needs to remember the router's last DHCP IP. apart from a manual modification or a factory reset of devices, it will reconnect on the same DHCP IP!

 

About DNS:

"An often-used analogy to explain the DNS is that it serves as the phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses. For example, the hostname www.example.com within the domain name example.com translates to the addresses 93.184.216.34 (IPv4) and 2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946 (IPv6). The DNS can be quickly and transparently updated, allowing a service's location on the network to change without affecting the end users, who continue to use the same hostname. Users take advantage of this when they use meaningful Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and e-mail addresses without having to know how the computer actually locates the services.

An important and ubiquitous function of the DNS is its central role in distributed Internet services such as cloud services and content delivery networks.^[3] When a user accesses a distributed Internet service using a URL, the domain name of the URL is translated to the IP address of a server that is proximal to the user. The key functionality of the DNS exploited here is that different users can simultaneously receive different translations for the same domain name, a key point of divergence from a traditional phone-book view of the DNS. This process of using the DNS to assign proximal servers to users is key to providing faster and more reliable responses on the Internet and is widely used by most major Internet services.^[4]

The DNS reflects the structure of administrative responsibility on the Internet.^[5] Each subdomain is a zone of administrative autonomy delegated to a manager. For zones operated by a registry, administrative information is often complemented by the registry's RDAP and WHOIS services. That data can be used to gain insight on, and track responsibility for, a given host on the Internet.^[6]"

^{Source Wikipedia}

Changing DNS is more of a way to bypass ISP tracking and censorship or to keep internet access in case of an outage. The impact at play is not noticeable!

[Netduma Fraser]

3 hours ago, Old J said:

Quick question. The R2 always give my PC the same IP. Is this normal behaviour? Even if i relase and renew in CMD its still the same IP everytime.

And i also wonder: Does DNS has ANYTHING to do with ping and gaming? My understanding is that its not relevant at all, but yet i see so many forum posts saying you should change your DNS when playing Valorant specifically. 

Yes that's normal, it won't always keep the same IP but it can keep the same one for awhile.

Changing DNS won't help with gaming at all, it may help with website loading times though

[Old J]

Thank you!

[Derlandes]

2 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Yes that's normal, it won't always keep the same IP but it can keep the same one for awhile.

Changing DNS won't help with gaming at all, it may help with website loading times though

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