Heartland

I know I've not been around for a while (exams...over tomorrow), but this was the only place I bothered to put in my /etc/hosts and now my DNS server has gone

Would somebody please be kind enough to post the IP of Google and/or a good domain lookup site (for purposes of retrieving domain names manually).

Danke?

P.S. Blast!, you have another convert. However, it's shipping from the US, so I'm still stuck on this windows box for a few more days...

http://www.google.com/search?q=free+dns ... 8&oe=UTF-8



oh, and google.co.uk = http://72.14.221.104

Cheers, Quiffy, goes some way to solving it

Only problem is, it's a Sky router which won't let me change the actual server, hence manual lookup (and then insertion into /etc/hosts) until it decides to play ball again - I'd use my old Pipex server if it wasn't. As a result, the google search isn't working, since they're all links to domain names, not IP addresses.

Thanks for your help anyhow, it's letting me try to find the IP of a lookup site =)

you using sky broadband? i have that at home. with the netgear router...?

Yeah, the crippled netgear router

It's normally fine (apart from the rather disastrous DHCP leasing...), but it's done this before a couple of times. Everything's working aside from DNS lookup. Which isn't very much, since everything else relies on DNS

mine worked pretty much out of the box tbh, although it does drop its web connection from time to time, and then once its dropped it takes an absolute eternity to re-establish. i often need to reboot the router a good few times before it can re-connect

you patched the firware to .28 ?

btw, this is a useful site

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/

or http://85.10.136.226/

on the plus side, the wireless side of it works a treat with my macbook pro, jo's windows laptop and my old desktop (was xp, now ubuntu)

I allas knew you were a man of taste Mike, good luck with the last 'test' and welcome to the future.

Well that was a bit of a shock - fail'd to authenticate on reboot for a good 5-10 minutes. Must be something playing very silly buggers up stream. The forum link looks sehr useful though, hopefully I'll find something good stuff there

Good to know it'll work fine with the Mac too

We got another of those Mac Whores, people. Now he's beyond help...

Me, I'll stick with my bloated easy-to-cripple OS.

Motz wrote:Cheers, Quiffy, goes some way to solving it

Only problem is, it's a Sky router which won't let me change the actual server, hence manual lookup (and then insertion into /etc/hosts)

That's odd.

Sky force you to rely on their own DNS servers? They block port 53 outbound from their network? Yuck.

That's a point, I've been assuming to use the router - on which you can't change the DNS server - for DNS. Might look into that, cheers.

The solution I was thinking of, other than keeping dnsstuff.com in /etc/hosts and manually harvesting my favourite sites, was to write a firefox DNS caching plugin. Might be fun for the holidays

I think it's time I left this thread, you've all started speaking alien...