On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 14:12, Nancy McIntyre wrote: > OK, then if, as Craig says, ISPs almost without exception specify > DNSs then is it fair to reason that the reported fix of entering the > DNS is working because a significant number of ISPs do *not* specify > their DNS?
Probably not. It's more likely that there's a software problem on the affected macs that causes them not to properly pick up the DNS information supplied by the ISPs. Maybe manually entering the DNS server information works around the problem. This is just guesswork, as I haven't read up on the issue, but seems a reasonable explanation for why a fix like that would work. > Are these ISPs 'cheating' and riding on other providers' > infrastructure perhaps? I note that in the maxfixit thread, a couple > of users found no joy from specifying their providers' DNSs. It's not very likely that they're doing that, no. In your case, the two IP addreses you get for DNS servers in your log resolve to dns1.westnet.com.au and relay1.westnet.com.au respectively. Both are within WestNet's normal IP address space. It might be worth specifying them explicitly in your settings anyway - just in case. For testing purposes, you might also want to try iiNet's DNS - 203.0.178.191 - but I don't know if you're allowed to use that for your regular DNS if you're not with iiNet. -- Craig Ringer
