Does ChromeOS use Google's DNS by default?

mauriciob · on Aug 30, 2011

No, it uses the same DNS server your OS uses.

cpeterso · on Aug 30, 2011

Chrome OS, not Chrome browser.

MostAwesomeDude · on Aug 30, 2011

No. ChromeOS is actually Gentoo Linux (surprise! Didn't you know?) and it uses a relatively standard method of grabbing DNS nameservers from DHCP.

You can't even change this without mucking around in the internal read-only filesystem. You can certainly assign new DNS nameservers after you've DHCP'd, but in that case, why not pick faster DNS servers than Google's?

RexRollman · on Aug 30, 2011

Thank you for your reply. I had no idea at all that it was based on Gentoo!