On Sat, 10 May 2008 10:55:30 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > Does anyone know how to set up the netgear to resolve local DNS? I > could set up a DNS server on another host and specify that machine's > address to be given out over DHCP to clients, but ti doesn't seem > satisfactory to rely on another host when the router is up 24/7. > > Hope I have explained it well. Is it possible to switch it all off and install bind/dhcp on a local server? At least you'll have fully featured products to configure then. Just a thought - it's how I do it with my ADSL ( and tbh, I'm now using OpenDNS, as ihug seem to have completely lost the plot - and my static IP address grrrr - today ). Steve. -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
