j maccraw, I'll try and answer inline below, as best that I can....... :) At 17:14 01/14/2008 -0800, you wrote:
LMHOSTS is a stand-in for DNS in the sense that it does domain-to-ip translation.
Thanks. I suspected this from my reading. And why I asked I should update my file before bringing another 'new' ip addy on the LAN. I do get that this may be really old fashioned, but it works for me ATM.
Odds are that your router is your DNS server and as such should be able to resolve all of you lan machine names into IP's w/o using the lmhosts kludge.
To the best of my knowledge this is just not the case. All of my clients and my current router use either OpenDNS addresses, or, the suggested two DNS servers for BellSouth. And no, I do not allow my current router to do 'DNS Relay' either. I may enable this feature in the future, however.
All this extra mental gymnastics go out the window if you'd just see the light and use DHCP. I mean who cares what IP address a system is on if you can get there by name anyway????
Yes, I do understand what you say. Let's just say I am a creature of habit. I like to uniquely assign my clients IP addy's AND have them stay that way until I decide otherwise. Let's just agree that this is my limited bit of control within my LAN ATM! LOL! Like Tomato---Tomahto, no?
No LEDs lit WOULD mean that some part of the router is dead since having a physical link lights a light reguardless of what a higher layer does.
Thank you. That is what I thought also, but could not find supporting docs to support this observation. I suspect that the 'router' side (w/telnet) works since I can talk telnet to it. The 'switch' port LEDs only light up if/when I force a rom0 or f/w upload. So, I do know that the LEDs do work! Just not when I need them too! LOL! Really odd. Really fun tool In the AM I'll put power to the brick again and see it the last rom0/firmware upload worked. For some unknown reason I keep getting a 'retry' during the f/w upload at the same place each time I do it (about 13 minutes into a 20 minute upload).
Perhaps I have a bad dot-bin file. Have a new one to try also. Old password is reset! Old IP addy is reset! Old everything else is reset! Making forward progress so far. Thanks for your patience. Yes, I am mule-headed. Best, Duncan snip
