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What are my DNS Settings

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DNS (Domain Name Service) translates the word based addresses you type into your applications such as Internet Explorer into a numeric IP address.

For example when you type www.bbc.co.uk into your browser, DNS will convert this into 212.58.224.82. And it’s a good job it does, can you imagine trying to remember those numbers just for your favourite websites alone???

DNS is used by the Xbox live service. So it needs to know the address of two servers from your ISP that can do the word to numbers translation. The numbers you use depend on your ISP and your system set-up.

Option 1 – Router using DHCP

This is the easiest option. Just set your settings on your Xbox dashboard to auto. As your router is automatically supplying your Xbox with an ip address and it will also supply your DNS settings as well. – No brainer

Option 2 – Router without DHCP (you are using static ip addressing)

If your PC is connected to the Internet it will know what your DNS settings should be run the following commands to find out what they are:-

• Start/Run type in ‘cmd’ (without the quotes)

This will start up a command prompt type in the following command

• Ipconfig /all

Look for the following entry highlighted by the yellow box

The area boxed in yellow are your DNS Server IP Addresses, these numbers will differ from the ones shown above as they are dependent on your ISP.

Put one into each of the entries in the DNS section of your Xbox dashboard

Option 3 – ICS

Same as option 2