On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:21, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:51 -0500, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
The Linksys router will be your default route but -not- your nameserver. Use the name servers provided by your ISP.
Is this a common problem with routers? I have a Netgear with the same name server problems. For my linux machines I usually set up a local caching DNS using the ISPs DNS as forwarders, which works great for Linux but no such luck for Windows. Since they configure via DHCP, it makes it a pain for a laptop. I thought it was maybe a Netgear problem, but maybe not. I was just wondering if this is a common router problem.
Joe Morris
If you have a local linux box running a caching dns server just point the windows box to it but also include your ISP name servers as well. The linksys I have (wrt54g) can supply a list of name servers but cannot act as a name server except for local dhcp addresses it has issued.
Do you offhand recall (I don't) where in the configuration of the network card the nameserver info is entered? I opened up YAST2 a few times to check out what's there and I don't see anything mentioned other than the network address of my SMC @ 192.168.2.1 in the section for nameserver lookup, which is greyed out by default.