Re: Broadband router recommendations?

tinnews@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The Natural Philosopher <a@xxx> wrote:
tinnews@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Daniel James <wastebasket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article news:<498d7738$0$506$bed64819@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tinnews@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
If someone can tell me how to set it up then I'd be very pleased to
hear from them ...
I don't think you do have to set it up ... if you send DNS requests to the router's address it will serve them from cache if it can and act as a proxy and perform the lookup on the external server otherwise.

C:\>nslookup
Default Server: lifeless.aaisp.net.uk
Address: 217.169.20.20

server 192.168.100.100
Default Server: my.router
Address: 192.168.100.100

www.bbc.co.uk
Server: my.router
Address: 192.168.100.100

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.bbc.net.uk
Address: 212.58.253.67
Aliases: www.bbc.co.uk

IIRC If you use the router's DHCP you can set up the DNS server address that DHCP will supply to clients from the "LAN TCP/IP and DHCP Setup" page in the router configuration. If you put the router's address there all clients should use the router as their main DHCP server.

I'm not convinced this works as you describe on my 2820n, it may pass
DNS requests on the ISP's DNS but it doesn't seem to cache local names.

... and while we're about it how would you add the occasional static
address to it? (I have a printer which doesn't tell the world its
name when it gets its IP via DHCP).

The short answer is never use DHCP for servers routers or printers. Nail them down.

That's not an answer to my question. OK, so I 'nail down' my printer
by giving it a fixed IP. How do I then set about making it accessible
from other machines - except by adding its name/address to every
machine on the network?


Set up a local DNS server.


set DHCP over, say, half the network only, and leave the other half for the stuff that has t be findable...

It *all* has to findable, using dnsmasq and DHCP for *everything* it
works perfectly as all the machines and VOIP boxes register with names
that I know. Of the ten or so devices and machines that are on my
network the *only* one that doesn't supply a name is the HP printer.

Poor you.

So wait until 2010 when 'printer registration broadcast protocol' or something else makes the world confirm to your prejudice.


Or hack something up yourself on Linux machine.
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Hint: DHCP is a way for total network bozos to only have to configure one thing.

Setting up servers - including printers - is not something total network bozos will be able to do successfully unless those printers are talking either Microsofts SMB procool for bozos, or Apples Appletalk protocol for bozos.


While you are at it, why not have the internet randomly assign addresses to all the world servers? and issue a broadcast to ask them where they are...ahah.



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