We know the SN DNS is working fine server-side, and therefore should
work fine for all clients, be they browsers, SBC, SB3, or SBR.  There
was nothing particularly wrong with SN itself last night, either.

To give more background on this issue, in firmware 60 (and previous),
if the "local" DNS servers (as provided by your DHCP server, for
example) failed to resolve www.squeezenetwork.com, the firmware would
fall back to querying the OpenDNS servers directly to get the answer, as
a last-resort workaround for the potential of broken local DNS service.

In 61 this fallback was removed (for complicated reasons, it causes us
other architectural problems and should not be necessary, as all users
should have functioning local DNS or their browsers wouldn't even work).


Evidence suggests that some players using r60 and previous were using
this fallback when it shouldn't have been warranted, and these failures
to connect to SN using firmware 61 are further evidence that you guys
were probably relying on the fallback behavior for whatever reason.

The thing to figure out at this point, is why on r61 your SBRs are
failing to find DNS resolution for www.squeezenetwork.com via your
standard local DNS services as advertised by your router's DHCP. 
Clearly your PCs/browsers aren't having any issue resolving the name
using the same DHCP/DNS settings.  If one of you having the issue has
the technical know-how to observe SBR's DNS traffic with a sniffer in
this scenario, it would be immensely valuable.

I'm suspecting there's some sort of compatibility issue affecting DNS
resolution using certain home network routers with the SBR, but that's
just a hunch at this point.  Either the DNS addresses being served up by
DHCP aren't being seen properly by the SBR, or for some reason there's a
protocol issue talking to said DNS servers.


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