Two friends of mine have the same router and the same problem ( from the beginning), so i guess replacing the router will not help... however. i told them to configure the computer to use dhcp for ip, but use static dns .
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <[email protected]> wrote: > Ori, > Since you can't replace or diagnose parts of the board, my simple > suggestion would be to replace the router (if I'm not mistaken, it > won't cost you). That way you'll get a new modem with newer firmware. > > Hetz > Two friends of mine have the same router and the same problem ( from the beginning when they got it), so i guess replacing the router will not help... however. i told them to configure the computer to use dhcp for ip, but use static dns . this solved the problem ... > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ori Berger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The DNS proxy on my ECI ADSL modem ran flawlessly for years, but recently, >> every few days it will abort with a segmentation fault. (I've been away for >> a few months, so I don't know exactly when it started -- later than October, >> earlier than February). >> >> Restarting it (by running "/sbin/dproxy -c /etc/dproxy.conf"), solves the >> problem, and there are no other visible problems. >> >> A hardware failure is possible but unlikely, given that it's all solid state >> (flash + ram) that has been doing the same thing for years. >> >> Another thing I suspect is bad, possibly malicious, DNS packets that make >> the proxy die. It's an old 2.4.17 MontaVista kernel, but I don't even know >> what version of dproxy. >> >> I found <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23243/exploit> but the dproxy is >> not listening for requests from the world, and thus (assuming my own machine >> is not a zombie -- I'm optimistic!) if it is indeed relevant, then it's >> possible some upstream DNS servers are not playing nice. >> >> Does anyone have a suggestion what I should be looking for, or to which >> firmware version should I update my modem? >> >> Thanks, >> Ori. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > > -- > Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. > my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
