Kyle;401925 Wrote: > OK, I tried this, using the DNS servers in your post. I could access > the internet, but my music would not play. I could access the server, > and everything looked fine.
You should set the DNS address of your desktop to the address of your router. IMHO in most cases the router gets the address(es) of internet DNS server(s) when it establishes a connection to the internet/your internet provider. This way it is able to translate names to IP addresses. In your LAN, the router acts as a local DNS to translate the names of your LAN devices to (local) IP addresses, so your LAN devices can talk with each other. If the router cannot find a name in your LAN (i.e. you typed a www address into the address line of your web browser), it asks the internet DNS server to translate this name to an IP address. In short: The DNS of your router is needed on the one hand to allow your local devices to find each other and on the other hand to let you find other systems in the internet. So IMHO it is reasonable to set the DNS server address of your local devices to the address of your router. -- carp Carsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------ carp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3584 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60727 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
