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Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Installed eCS 2.0 RC4 on T61 (6465-CTO) withSUSE SLED 10 preloaded.
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 17:02:46 -0700 (PDT), Jon Harrison wrote:

>On Fri, 30 May 2008 16:00:57 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:
>
>> Each new location [i.e., ISP] has their own DNS.
>> Getting to the DNS that each location needed to find everything else
>>has been a mess when the RESOLV2 file is overwritten.
>
>You raise a good point.  I have not yet traveled with the TP61 so
>had not thought much about it.  I'm interested in the 4.2.2.3 tip. 
>Is that just a random known dns server?  I have a TLD ip address as
>the 3rd entey in my resolv2 but I have no idea if it ever gets
>queried.

As I got the complete tip from Lewis:
    "...4.2.2.1, 2, & 3 work well. They're old GTE servers,
    and are fairly responsive..."

FWIW, it also appears that the sequence of the NameServer statements
may [but should not be] significant.  In the cases I mentioned, it
seems that the DNS built into the DSL router has to be first.  I put
4.2.2.3 next, followed by my own ISP's DNS IPs.  If I hit a situation
where a name cannot be resolved, I'll remove the Read-Only, add it to
the list, reset to Read-Only and go from there.

This all said, I'm not claiming I know why this is working well.  But,
I'll keep doing it as long as it works.
   [Thanks, again, to Lewis!]
Carl