Hmmmm. So if your Router listed 24.205.192.75 as the DNS server, you would not use it? Instead you would use 192.168.0.1? and it works that way? Well, I will have more than one option to try this morning. :)
Thanks, Sandi Rod Lindgren -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huntress Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 5:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: NETworking: 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). :) > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.0 - Release Date: 4/29/2005 -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
