How To Stop Dns Client Service Windows 10

Why and how to disable the Windows DNS Customer Service

by | Nov 6, 2019 | Engineering science |

The Windows DNS client is poorly named. It is not a truthful DNS client only rather a DNS caching service. Information technology caches records of all domain names you have visited (resolved). Overall this is a positive characteristic for network performance as it can greatly reduce the time it takes to begin the actual connection to a domain-named network service.

The information in here is upward to date equally of publishing information technology for Windows x.

Why should I disable the Windows DNS Customer Service?

The well-nigh common reason that I encounter are by people using extremely large HOSTS files. Often to cake off unsafe domains/hosts. The Windows DNS Client Service is unable to load such large files and it often results in network admission breaking down completely and fifty-fifty arrangement instability. I recommend that y'all stick to a smaller HOSTS file anyways as it is less likely to break access to mutual websites.
Privacy: This is a huge one as the Windows DNS Client Service provides a handy list of every resolved hostname to anyone and any app with user-level admission. This is a better reason to disable it.
DNS Conflicts: This is a more than rare effect simply one that is notwithstanding important to mention hither. Your computer/device having it'due south own DNS cache may conflict with other upstream network components (home routers, ISP, etc). They may decide to route the aforementioned hostname to different IP addresses. For this reason I disable the Windows DNS Client Service and rely on my Fresh Tomato Router (Netgear R7000) to run a DNS caching service for all of my devices. It is generally faster and safer and since it runs a DNS server alongside the caching there are generally no conflicts on my network like the ones I mentioned above. Well, at least they are less probable now…

You tin can view all the entries in your DNS cache by doing the following as an Administrator. If you have trouble launching these apps and commands as an Administrator then printing the WinKey and but type out cmd, services.msc, regedit – You will see them listed as items and you tin right-click on them and select Run as ambassador

Press WinKey + R and striking ENTER
Blazon in cmd and hit ENTER
Type in ipconfig /displaydns and hitting ENTER

Y'all can also flush out the DNS cache by doing the following:

Press WinKey + R and hit ENTER
Type in cmd and hit ENTER
Type in ipconfig /flushdns and hit ENTER
Type in ipconfig /displaydns and hit ENTER to confirm the flush was truly successful.

Steps to disable the Windows DNS Client Service:

Press WinKey + R and hitting ENTER
Type in regedit and hit ENTER
Scan to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache
Discover the primal (The blazon is DWORD) named Outset and change it'southward value from 4 to 2
Restart your computer.

Addendum: I do not recommend that you disable this service unless the above issues are of a higher concern to you. The performance loss from disabling it may exist noticeable for some users as information technology may delay overall connection times (transfer rates/latency are 100% unaffected by this, no matter what anyone tells you!). If the privacy concerns are high for you, so disabling information technology is still worth information technology simply remember to make use of decent DNS servers in general.