Well, the old dsl modem was getting flaky, so Qwest replaced it with a PK5000 (rental). The new one is wireless, so that is good. But an issue showed up. I have a work-around, but I am curious if anyone here has ideas as to why Qwest programmed it as they apparently did.
The issue: I set up the DHCP server parameters to use static dns addresses of 69.64.224.66 and 69.64.224.67. Sent a DHCP request, the modem responds with its own IP (192.168.0.1) as the primary DNS and what I had entered as the secondary. A DNS request to 192.168.0.1 fails. A DNS request sent to 69.64.224.67 or 69.64.224.66 works fine. I have had many email exchanges with Actiontec about this. Trying to get them to say why this made sense did not get very far. Their very first response seems to be the most clear: "Honestly not sure why its programmed this way. The DNS is resolved by the WAN connection with Qwest so the primary DNS is 205.171.3.65 and secondary is 205.171.2.65 The PK5000 holds these settings in memory and relays them by using its Gateway IP as the primary. Same is true if you set static DNS servers in memory. The PK5000 and in fact all Qwest DSL Gateways, show the gateway IP as the primary DNS." Yet later response from Actiontek said: "The PK5000 itself is NOT a DNS server or redirection device. There is no programming in fact to do a DNS redirection internally. It cannot do that at all. It simply takes the DNS servers configured statically in the DHCP server settings, or takes the DNS servers provided by the ISP and broadcasts them as part of its DHCP server services." The best guess I can come up with is that it works when Qwest is the ISP. I am not using Qwest. Finally a email from Qwest support said: "Qwest Broadband Technical Support was unable to create an email ticket based on the information you provided on our web site." I suspect this is because I was forced to say that my OS was "other". They do not want to talk to me. Comments? -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
