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Originally Posted by zakthor

What is probably happening in your case is that your router has a s**t-a** implementation of dns and is crashing.

I've run into a bunch of routers whose internal dns code is rife with bugs and errors. The routers worked fine with some old slow devices but can't handle cases exposed by newer devices and software.

There are a set of belkins that whose dns will crash if you use them with ipads. There are some other old routers that would crash if you gave them too many dns queries in a row. Is stunning to me that this is so difficult to get right. Its been more than 10 years and companies still struggle with this.

I'd agree with what Zakthor said, and I think ^^this^^ is the crux of the problem.

I also think that if you can configure your router to provide specific IPs or something other than itself as the DNS for the PCs then that will go a long way towards rectifying your issue. If you can't configure the router to provide something besides itself, then the next best thing would be to hard code several on the devices that use the router (ie, PCs). If you've got phones or ipads, I'm not sure how easy that is to do (I haven't tried it myself).

I'd recommend using at least one of the DNS servers that comes from your provider, even if it's farther down the list.