On 16/02/14 10:17, Richmond wrote:
On 16/02/14 10:15, Richmond wrote:
On 15/02/14 22:12, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond-
Saturday, February 15, 2014, 11:43:37 AM, you wrote:
and "bingo", everything is lovely.
Yay!
Well "semi-bingo" insofar as individual computers can now bypass the
router's DNS setting (all the Linux boxes I have connected to my
router),
but other devices (my wife's iPad, my G3 iMac running 9.2) cannot,
and as such cannot access the websites that that DNS seems unable to
reach.
What makes me feel uncomfortable is that those sites seem to be the
ones we contact the most, which makes me wonder if somebody
has been mucking around somewhere.
Supposedly (!!!!) the ISP (BLIZOO, Bulgaria) are going to send a pair
of monkeys, err, strike that, "computer engineers" to play around
with my cable modem and my router: this, frankly, doesn't make me
feel good at all - who paid them, who has told them exactly what to
install (spybots)?
Nothing would give me greater satisfaction than to greet them at the
door and tell them "Thanks, but no thanks", having managed to change
my DNS in the router (EDIMAX TP-LINK) via the browser interface
myself: but I don't think that can be done . . .
Richmond.
Especially, Linux lovers, as my /etc/resolv.conf file has been blanked
overnight so I have to redo the thing!
AND the lesson is:
Never, ever listen to "computer engineers" at one's ISP.
Having told me that to access the internet I had to leave their DNS in
place in my router settings, I tried Mark's recipe,
which worked, but only while I had the computer switched on; when I got
up in the morning and switched the machine on,
the /etc/resolv.conf document had reverted to what it had been before I
mucked about with it the night before.
So; I got into my TP-LINK router's settings and changed the DNS to one
of the ones I mentioned in an earlier posting:
had to physically restart the router (the soft restart just stopped the
thing working) as well as the cable modem: bingo,
hopefully "bigger bingo" than previously.
Unfortunately I have a tendency to trust other people; especially people
with pompous titles such as "computer engineer",
and "expert"; but, thinking about things, when the chap on the phone
said that when their "experts" came to see me they would
correct "the problem" via Internet Explorer (having told him about 4
times that I only used Mac and Linux in my house), I should
have told him to "boil his head".
So, if you hear me describing myself anywhere as a "computer engineer"
or a "computer expert" run a mile . . . LOL
Here endeth the lesson, and let us prAy, and let the "computer
engineers" not prEy on us.
Richmond (High Priest, Archbishop and Court Jester in chief).
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