Receiver DNS vs router DNS: which is safer?

There are two places you can point at Retune·FM. They both work — but one is cleaner.

On the receiver (recommended)

Setting the DNS on the receiver affects only the receiver. Every phone, laptop and smart device on your network keeps its normal DNS. It’s the most contained option, and the one we recommend. The only catch: a few receivers don’t offer a manual DNS field.

On the router

Setting it on the router is convenient when the receiver won’t let you change DNS — it covers every device at once. Even then, only the legacy radio domains are redirected to us; all other lookups are forwarded to public resolvers unchanged. But because every device’s lookups now pass through our resolver, the receiver-only method is still the tidier choice.

The privacy-preserving middle ground

On a Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, OpenWrt, MikroTik or pfSense, you can add a local override for just the radio domains — network-wide convenience without sending everything else through us. See the advanced setup guides.

Bottom line: use the receiver if you can; the router (or an advanced override) if you can’t.