controlling DHCP

James R. Van Zandt jrvz at comcast.net
Mon May 1 22:14:35 EDT 2006


dsr at tao.merseine.nu writes:
>   On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:14:35PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
>   > ...For the ones with static IP, I have configured their
>   > DNS servers manually in /etc/resolv.conf:
>   >   search comcast.net
>   >   nameserver 68.87.71.226
>   >   nameserver 68.87.73.242
>   > i.e. the ones Comcast provides*.  When those servers move to different
>   > IPs (as they did within the last few days), my networking breaks, and
>   > I have to diagnose the problem and update that file.
>
>   Tell your machines that the nameserver IP is the internal IP of
>   the router/DNS server, i.e. 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.1 or whatever.

That works!  Despite its not being mentioned in either the Linksys
documentation or the web setup screens.  So I don't have to replace
the firmware after all.

Thanks!

             - Jim Van Zandt



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