[Info-vax] setting up an alpha in a home network using a linksys router

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

David J Dachtera wrote:

> From that page, note the IPs of the DNS servers that were provided to
> the LinkSys by your ISP. 
> 
> Now, the LinkSys can provide those to your local DHCP clients.

What benefit does that give compared with providing the IP address
of the LinkSys itself to the DHCP clients ? If I'm not wrong a
name resolution of a localy cached host/IP would be a little faster
against the LinkSys then going all the way to the ISP DNS servers, not ?

And at least on my Zyxel's that's the default so no additional
setup.

> For the
> Alpha(, VAX, I64, etc. with static IPs) you'll want to set those DNS
> servers in the configuration of the IP stack on your VMS(, etc.)
> machine(s).

My VMS system simply have the IP of the local Zyxel router as DNS server.
Works just fine, and my ISP can change DNS servers as much as they like,
the Zyxel takes care of that. So again, what benefit is it to have the
local VMS systems go directly the whole way to the ISP name servers ?