[Wylug-help] DNS problems on a PC

Mike Goodman mike.goodman at zen.co.uk
Thu May 15 12:21:20 BST 2008


John Hodrien wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008, Mike Goodman wrote:
> 
>> Yes. My router, 192.168.0.1
> 
> That's fairly normal for routers to advertise themselves as DNS servers via
> DHCP.  They then forward the requests on to the DNS servers the router
> picked
> up via DHCP from your ISP.
> 
> Give your router a kick, as it's apparently not working correctly.  Either
> it's picked up incorrect DNS servers from your ISP, or it's simply got its
> knickers in a twist.
> 
> jh
> 

Another box on the same router, after rebooting the router didn't work.
couldn't ping several domains by name, but had no problems by IP, so I'm
suspecting your synopsis is correct, John.

I'll feed the results back when I get the replacement in.

Thanks for all the contributions. More may yet be needed. ;)



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