MediaOne/RR/AT&T cablemodemers alert

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> writes;

> They just changed name server IP's.  Had me going crazy why I could find
> things from my server (which got the new numbers through DHCP), but my
> Windows box couldn't (which has the numbers hard-coded, and a rebood to
> change them).
> 
> I should probably set up a cacheing-only name server on my linux box to
> solve this problem.  Sounds like a medium-sized project I don't have the
> time or knowledge for right now though.

They changed it with no notice to the customer base? That's pretty lame.
I'd certainly recommend running DNS internally. 

I haven't looked at how caching-only servers are defined in the various 
linux distributions. If it's actually a complete DNS server that just 
happens
to not be serving any zones, then I'd agree it's a good option. If it's 
implemented as something that merely passes requests on to the ISP's DNS 
server if the request isn't already cached, then I'd suggest running the 
complete server.


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