Networking & wireless: router as dns server?
router as dns server?
by drummerboy627 - 10/15/08 11:00 AMI have a LinkSys WRT54G router on IP 192.168.6.27
My laptop and desktop are set to automatically get an IP address from the router. However, I have noticed lately that the two computers cannot communicate using their friendly names but I can ping them and do filesharing by their IP addresses. Upon doing an ipconfig /all on both machines, I think I have discovered the problem. The computers each have two DNS servers, but neither is my router. I could manually tell my machines to use 192.168.6.27 as my DNS server, but because I travel with my laptop it would be much easier if I could just leave it on autoconfig.
How, then, can I get my router to tell my machines that it is the DNS server they should use and have the router handle all requests to my ISP's external DNS servers?
"using their friendly names"
by R. Proffitt
- 10/15/08 1:19 PM
In reply to: router as dns server? by drummerboy627
You could put those names in your HOSTS file. Look up what the HOSTS file does...
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