I just use the gateway address for the primary DNS and leave the
secondary blank. Works fine.
Andy Medina wrote:
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Rod Lindgren wrote:
Yes, it was a typo.
I have tried setting the IP address for the desktop manually, but it
could not access the internet. It can access the router's setup
screen (192.168.0.1), but cannot find the internet. The computer runs
Zone Alarm, but I turn it completely off and still no internet.
On other computers and networks I have worked on, manually
configuring the IP address made a near immediate change and I did not
need to reboot. I will try rebooting anyway after manually configuring.
One question about the DNS server field in the manual configuration.
I am not sure what to put there, so it remains blank. Could this be
the problem?
Doh!
Sorry for the SA response but, how can a computer find anything on the
Internet if it does not know the IP address? Humans need the
www.whatever.whatever internet names. Computers need the IP address.
So a scheme (Domain Name Servers/System) was devised to provide the
required translation: Name => IP Address. If you ain't got a DNS
address entry, you ain't going nowhere (unless you use IP addresses
only). :)
Use the DNS server address(es) the notebook is using. Or you can
usually obtain the DNS address(es) from the router's status page.
Another reason DHCP is great... you don't need to know beans about
addresses, they are automagically provided. It's also why the notebook
is working. :)
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