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i suspect that you're using their dns server because it's what is given to you via dhcp, but you can probably configure your own (well, you can certainly configure you own; the problem is it's possible that they are blocking dns requests). for example, set things to use 8.8.8.8 as the dns server (which is google's).


No, we can't configure our own. The network settings config is locked out using policy controls.


Supposedly there is a command line option in Chrome to specify a custom dns server.

  --dns-server=8.8.8.8
But it also looks like it doesn't always work (never worked, or is a special development mode only feature). Here is the bug report on it:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85875


comment 5 (in that thread, from the developer involved) says that it is working and testing it myself (google-chrome --dns-server=8.8.8.8) with wireshark shows that it does query that server.

(thanks for pointing this out; it wasn't what i was suggesting - i had assume the laptop was the op's own).




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