On Sunday 29 May 2005 11:38 am, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 10:55 -0700, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Sunday 29 May 2005 9:09 am, Scott Leighton wrote:
Some googling reveals that many, but not all, of the Linksys boxes can operate as a DNS proxy. Apparently my BEFSR41 has that capability, which explains why it magically seems to work when putting the router address in /etc/resolv.conf
Note that some of those same google sources recommended not doing so though. There were reports that the proxy feature was buggy and could cause long delays in DNS lookups.
Scott
Which is why you would be better off setting up your own DNS server even if it is only used as a forwarder.
Agreed. I'm running a local caching only server myself. I only played around with this due to the OP's questions, and in the process learned quite a bit too <g>! I had no idea that the Linksys did DNS proxy, so his posted results were a curiosity to me. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64