Re: DNS Server Address Moved to Router

Klunk wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:27:57 +1000, Doug Laidlaw passed an empty day by
writing:

This thread has been deleted from my Leafnode server, but the Leafnode
link took me straight to it on Google Groups!

I wrote:

I have a favorite site that I cannot access via my ISP's primary DNS
server address. I CAN access it via the secondary DNS server. Rather
than reconfigure and hunt up the second address every time I upgrade, I
have set the DNS addresses in my router, which stands between an ADSL
modem in bridge mode and my (and my wife's) computer.

Should I change my computer settings? The old settings: "use DHCP" etc
still work, except that my BitTorrent port now shows Closed all the
time. Previously I had port forwarding in the router, and it is still
there. Should I perhaps be telling my interface that its DNS server is
the router, or similar? Or should I put it back how it was originally?



Anyway, Cork Soaker, perhaps it should not make a scrap of difference,
moving the DNS addresses to the router, but it did. As soon as I
changed the router setting to DHCP, the BT ports opened up.

Perhaps some peculiarity of the router (D-Link WGR614 v. 6)?

Doug.

Why not just bookmark it by it's IP address, rather than name?

I tried that. It seemed to work for the Home page, but I ran into trouble
navigating the site, because menus and links on the start page sent me back
to the DNS server.

Anyway, I can just keep a record of the two numbers.

Doug.
.

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