Re: Strange problem

[Martin Visser <martinvisser99 () gmail com>]

For normal domestic routers, the DNS server handed about by the DHCP server
will be it's own address - it usually runs as a caching/masquerade DNS
server. So you should be able to use static configuration quite
successfully.

Have you checked that the router manufacturer doesn't have a firmware
upgrade that might offer a fix?

Regards, Martin

MartinVisser99 () gmail com


On 21 April 2011 08:23, Chris Maynard <chris.maynard () gtech com> wrote:

> Someone Somebody <temp4746@...> writes:
>
> > Ok, by looking at the dhcp offer packet it seems the lease is set to 1
> hour...
> -.-"
> > At the 30 minute mark when the computer requests a renew the router's
> bugge
> dhcp server sends a nak which causes the disconnect.
> > Any ideas? (I'm gonna try and replace to a different router with my ISP
> but
> the other model I know for sure they are offering has it's own share of
> bugs)
>
> Well, you could assign yourself static IP, netmask, gateway and DNS entries
> instead of using DHCP to obtain them all.  If you don't have a lot of
> computers
> to maintain, then this might be a viable alternative for you.  Usually the
> only
> problem you might run into on [typically] rare occasions is if the DNS
> entries
> ever change, but it's easy enough to find the new ones if they do by just
> changing back to DHCP temporarily.  I have no idea how often that might
> happen,
> if at all though.  But, if it does happen and you find that it happens too
> often
> such that it becomes too annoying for you, then you could always use other
> DNS
> servers that don't ever change, such as opendns.  You don't have to use
> your
> provider's DNS servers.
>
> opendns servers are listed at http://www.opendns.com/ as:
>
> 208.67.222.222
> 208.67.220.220
>
> I also see at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS that there are two
> others
> listed as well:
>
> 208.67.222.220
> 208.67.220.222
>
> Obviously there are other alternatives if you don't like opendns.
>
>
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