On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 15:52, Nancy McIntyre wrote: > By the sounds of it, the best thing is to leave *nothing* unspecified.
Not really ... generally you'll want to pick up your ISPs settings rather than specify them explicitly. That way, if your ISP changes DNS servers your computer just picks up the change rather than stops working. For troubleshooting a specific problem, however, it may be worth explicitly configuring them. -- Craig Ringer

