On Sat 10 May 2008 10:55:30 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > I have a Netgear MBR814 router. It is supplied by Woosh. It has 3 > network interfaces - one to woosh's cell network, one wireless 802.11g > and one to the wired network. The wifi and wired lan's are bridged > together. > > The router gives out ip addresses and dns servers etc by dhcp to > wifi/wired clients. The DNS servers it gives out are those supplied by > Woosh. So clients use the ISP's DNS server. You can, however, specify > DNS servers to be given out to local clients. > > What I can't seem to do with this arrangement is resolve local DNS.
If it's given out by woosh, it'll be a consumer device. Consumer devices are nasty, featureless, and *cheap*. You have two options: Find the BUI page where you can configure dynamic DHCP, where the DHCP server allocates an IP address to anyone who asks. Configure fixed IP addresses in the "static DHCP" section, which gives out always the same IP address to the same host (which is identified by MAC address). All the static addresses are outside the dynamic range. If the setup is any good, the IP addresses dished out by DHCP will also be injected through the device's DNS server/forwarder, so they also resolve appropriately. If you can't find the above in the BUI (because consumer devices typically don't have it), get something a bit more professional. I know pfsense will do it, I expect ipcop does too. In general I am iffy about the wisdom(?) of using a consumer-grade wireless/whatnot gimmick as sole protection device. I'd just about say anyone doing this obviously doesn't have any important client or business data, but that's IMHO. Sorry if the answer isn't just "click this button to evaporate your problems ;) HTH, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
