[NBLUG/talk] Changed Network

[Walter Hansen]

No, both sonic nameservers haven't changed since I've been with them. It
was the nearest router. Apparantly it is programmed to handle DNS itself
and behaves oddly if you try to access an outside DNS site. So you make
the DNS request of the router and the router then passes it on to it's
configured DNS server and back. This is probably a quirk/feature of the
router, but was not apparant. It's also odd that for some calls it worked
and for some calls it didn't. The windows boxes are more of a mystery,
true most of them are configured through DHCP so the DNS server would
automaticly set to the router, but there are a few that have static IPs
and they're all confgiured directly to sonics DNS servers and I've had no
problems with them. I should probably do some testing on them looking for
problems.

This is actually a reson to go with sonic as opposed to comcast, sbc or
someone else. They give you static IPs that don't change unless you want
them to.

>> I'd programmed both routers with the nameservers but only the nearest
>> one has DHCP active. The far router uses static IPs for the near
>> router. That network is actually only for routers and not for hosts,
>> although I can plug my laptop in there, reconfigure a little and test
>> connections and the far router configuration. I hadn't known for some
>> reason until recently that DHCP could pass on nameserver information
>> (don't know where I missed that little tidbit).
>
> This confused me one day when some of the comcast name servers simply
> stopped responding. After a couple calls to support they told me that
> the name servers IPs changed every so often. And I needed to get the
> current IPs from DHCP. I thought they would be static so I hard coded
> them into resolv.conf instead of letting the network scripts do it for
> me. Maybe sonic does the same thing? But why the windows computers
> resolved with the old IPs, I don't know.
>
>
> --
> Micxz
>
>
> note: DHCP spits out IP, Gateway and DNS if setup correctly
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