Host name question

Frank Laszlo laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Wed Oct 20 13:31:33 PDT 2004


>>search albyny.adelphia.net
>>nameserver 192.168.0.1
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>You've got 192.168.0.1 listed as a nameserver. Can't be. That's the 
>ip address of your Netgear router, it acts as a DHCP server not as 
>a DNS server. What is albyny.adelphia.net? Is that your ISP? You 
>need to get one or more nameserver ip's from your ISP. That's what 
>goes in resolv.conf
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>Bill
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>Don
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Most modern routers act a DNS servers these days, it is possible that 
the router is setup this way, and the router actually just forwards the 
dns requests to his ISP's nameservers.

Regards,
    Frank


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