On Friday, May 27, 2005 @ 6:24 PM, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thursday 26 May 2005 9:57 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:30 AM, Ken Schneider wrote:
The setup you say you have now is what I had at one point and
changed
because my entire network would be unavailable if that name server was unavailable (say the ISP was unreachable). You then have no name server. You should be able to just tell your machine that 192.168.1.1 IS the name server.
Greg Wallace
What version of bind is running on your linksys router?
That I don't know. I logged into it but couldn't find any reference to a bind version.
Probably because the Linksys router does not run bind.
On mine, a BEFSR41, I can configure the dns server entries to hand out to DHCP clients on the Linksys DHCP page, but that's not the same as running a DNS server.
Scott Which is the point I was trying to send to Greg, Linksys routers do not run bind and therefore cannot be pointed to as a DNS server. If his entire network becomes unavailable when the nameserver was unavailable
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 18:16 -0700, Scott Leighton wrote: then he does not have his local hosts files setup correctly (my best guess). On the wrt54g wireless router with third party firmware you can set it up to act as a local dns cache but it will not perform any internet address translations.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
When I first installed SuSE, it defaulted to going out to my ISP, grabbing the name server addresses, and storing those as its name servers (you could see them from the YAST screen we were discussing earlier in this thread). Then, if I lost my connection to my ISP, my network would not start. I'd get a message saying it could not access my name server. Setting Linux to look to my router for names solved that problem. It checked the router for the name server and the router basically said it was ready to supply the names as needed. At least that's the behavior it exhibited at startup. Greg W.