Re: [SLE] cable modem

From: Scott Leighton (helphand_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 05/29/05

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Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 08:27:29 -0700

    On Sunday 29 May 2005 5:14 am, Greg Wallace wrote:
    > On Saturday, May 28, 2005 @ 7:23 AM, Scott Leighton wrote:
    > >
    > > No, that's not the way I understand it. It's passing the address of the
    > >nameservers to your Linux box via DHCP, your Linux box then uses
    > >those addresses for /etc/resolv.conf, so the end result is that your
    > >Linux box gets its list of DNS servers from the Linksys, but after
    > >that, it is simply resolving addresses using the servers that
    > >were on the list, the Linksys isn't directly involved. The Linksys
    > >isn't running a nameserver, it is only passing out the addresses
    > >of nameservers.
    > >
    > > Scott
    >
    > That's the way it used to work (I'd see those ISP name server addresses in
    > my Linux box). Once I overrode that to my Router IP address, that's the
    > only address that showed up in Linux.
    >

      Well, I'd love to know what model Linksys router you are using. I
    was unaware that any of them run a DNS server, but if you can
    simply point /etc/resolv.conf to your router and get DNS services,
    then the router must be running one.

       Scott 

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