Coalwater, some routers will give their clients (the home computer) their address for the DNS host address and they then act as a DNS proxy to the DNS hosts given to it either during the set up of it (for static addresses from the ISP, or from it getting it from the ISP DHCP server). This would explain the problem and why the problem went away after resetting the router. In fact I have had this same type of problem occur in the past (it was/is a Verizon DSL modem/router made by Westell) where it does not pass on the DNS requests for some hosts and only from some clients.
On Nov 1, 3:45 am, Mohammad AbuShady <[email protected]> wrote: > Just something i wanted to add up, your real ip on the internet is assigned > to you from your ISP (Internet Service Provider), you cant change that no > matter what, unless the ISP does, either by request or on her own, or if it > uses dynamic ip, so every time your router goes online it gets a random ip > from the ISP. > The DNS though you have full control on it, you get the default ISP's DNS > but you still can change it on your own from your network options. > OpenDNS gives you good options, you can make a new account on there and use > OpenDNS to block your computer from accessing specific content, like adult > sites, and schools use it to block social networking sites. It also fixes > typos, if you type likewww.gooogle.com(3 o's) it wont bring up and error, > it'll correct it and go towww.google.com. > If you are intrested and you want to read more or try it out go > tohttp://www.opendns.com/ > > ~Coalwater~ > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:55 AM, DaveyBrasco <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You're absolutely right Coalwater, that is for IPv4 anyways. > > > Once IPv6 becomes standard...eventually...possibly (lol), IP addresses > > will look a bit different, but now I'm really going off-topic so I'll > > stop right there. lol --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
