Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: DNS lookup failure on Linksys router

As I have said before, the hosts file on each of my Windows computers is 
*blank* (with the exception of the loopback entry, of course). I just 
checked with Linksys (it wasn't easy talking to someone in India!) and 
learned that you may be right about the forwarding of DNS requests to 
the ISP (either that or it has something to do with WINS or NetBIOS 
handling my hostname lookups). As an alternative, how can I set up BIND?

>Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:11:07 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Steven J. Yellin" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Re. Re: Re: DNS lookup failure on Linksys router
>To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <[email protected]>
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>    You wrote that your router "does act as DNS for my Windows machines."
>But it's possible that your router doesn't have the ability to store
>name-IP resolution tables on its own, but instead, as a DHCP client to
>Verizon, obtains the IP of the service provider's nameserver, and simply
>relays to that IP requests the internal network sends to the router.  Did
>you actually produce a name resolution table inside the router?  Or are
>the tables only inside your Windows machines? For example, under
>NT/2000/XP, %SystemRoot%\System32\Drivers\ETC\HOSTS may contain the
>IP/name pairs for phoenix1 and phoenix2, in which case the Windows
>NT/2000/XP machine would not need corresponding information inside the
>router.  But if your router really does have an internal DNS, then your
>question "If the router serves as DNS to Windows, why not Linux?" is a
>legitimate one for which I don't know the answer.
>
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