DNS Configuration On Printers

[Eugene Ellis1]

I have been seeing a trend this week were companies are putting a regular computer machine IP address into the primary DNS of a printer and some are leaving the secondary to nothing or to google or someone else. My question is why in the printer is the primary DNS set to an IP address to a local machine and not the companies DNS server if they have one. I understand the network translates host to IP etc etc. Does anyone have any thoughts on this. Thank you in advance for anyone's help.

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