Dan, LOL! never under estimate the power of a user :-)! Hi Chris, After unsuccessfully looking for any other device that might have been responding to DHCP requests, I remembered that there was a strange looking switch in one of the offices, and also that I had seen a similar one at a different place altogether that was doing DHCP for the machines on that network, so I disconnected it, and gave those users another one :-)
Regards On 18/02/2010, Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Emmanuel, > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Emmanuel Sekyewa wrote: > >> I finally found the source of most of my misery. It was a conceptronic >> wireless broadband router that some users were using as a switch in >> their office. I unplugged it at about 10:00AM and took it away :-) this >> morning, and since then I haven't had anyone calling in with a wrong DNS >> server allocation on their machine. Thanks alot for all the help and >> support! > > How did you identify this router as the cause? > > Cheers, Chris. > -- > Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887 > The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES > > Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales > with company number 04980791. > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > -- Emmanuel C. Sekyewa +256 782 199 202 _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
