[Info-vax] setting up an alpha in a home network using a linksys router

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

John Santos wrote:
> In article <4d%cm.10632$U5.138385 at newsb.telia.net>, jan-
> erik.soderholm at telia.com says...> 
>> David J Dachtera wrote:
>>
>>> From that page, note the IPs of the DNS servers that were provided to
>>> the LinkSys by your ISP. 
>>>
>>> Now, the LinkSys can provide those to your local DHCP clients.
>> What benefit does that give compared with providing the IP address
>> of the LinkSys itself to the DHCP clients ? If I'm not wrong a
>> name resolution of a localy cached host/IP would be a little faster
>> against the LinkSys then going all the way to the ISP DNS servers, not ?
> 
> Um, maybe because it doesn't work?  At least, my BEFSR41 didn't provide
> a DNS server.

Ah, of course.

I checked the docs for the Zyxel and it uses "DNS Proxy"
to channel the DNS lookups between the clients (and from
my VMS system) to the real DNS servers at the ISP.

I can also enter the addresses of the ISP's DNS servers into the
Zyxel, but then I have to manage/change these settings manualy
whenever my ISP decides to change DNS servers.

So the Zyxel isn't realy a DNS *server*.

The Zyxel and my ISP uses something called IPCP for this.

And of course, if a specific DSL router/modem does not support
"DNS Proxy" you have to manage these setting manualy...

Of course, if a specific DSL router/modem does not support
"DNS Proxy" you have to manage these setting manualy...
I just checked the docs for the BEFSR41 and it seems as
it doesn't support DNS Proxying. Well then...


Jan-Erik.