[NBLUG/talk] Changed Network

[Micxz at Slashdomain]

Walter Hansen wrote:
> No, both sonic nameservers haven't changed since I've been with them. It
> was the nearest router. Apparantly it is programmed to handle DNS itself
> and behaves oddly if you try to access an outside DNS site. So you make
> the DNS request of the router and the router then passes it on to it's
> configured DNS server and back. This is probably a quirk/feature of the
> router, but was not apparant. It's also odd that for some calls it worked
> and for some calls it didn't. The windows boxes are more of a mystery,
> true most of them are configured through DHCP so the DNS server would
> automaticly set to the router, but there are a few that have static IPs
> and they're all confgiured directly to sonics DNS servers and I've had no
> problems with them. I should probably do some testing on them looking for
> problems.

I see what you mean now. Still the old windows mystery.

> This is actually a reson to go with sonic as opposed to comcast, sbc or
> someone else. They give you static IPs that don't change unless you want
> them to.

Yes, I've been looking at Sonic's services. I'm able to get over 3Mbps 
here on Comcast cable (w/out TV) and I got a deal for the first 6 months 
@ $29.99. So so far I'm really happy' After my 6 months I plan to switch 
  or get the business pack at Comcast and it like you described static 
IPs etc + more bandwidth.

BTW' that ascii art map you made really explains it all. I had a totally 
different idea in my head.

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Micxz