MediaOne/RR/AT&T cablemodemers alert

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

24.128.60.8 and 24.128.60.7 still work, so what's the real problem. I just 
tested 24.128.60.8 and it appears to be working fine.
John Abreau wrote:
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> David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> writes;
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> > 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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> David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> writes;
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> > 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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Boston Linux and Unix user group
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