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From: "Stanley Sidlov" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:21:39 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] OT - network weirdness

In ALL cases, the DNS server at the client level is the ROUTER's IP address, and should 
NOT be configured manually if DHCP is working properly. It is possible that to make OS/2 
work correctly that it MAY possibly require a default route that defines the router's IP 
but DNS is not required unless you wish to override the DNS servers provided by your ISP 
or programmed in your router manually.

Even in your case of a SMC connected to a AP from Dlink, anything connecting to the the 
DLINK should be pointing to the SMC's address (unless you have the Dlink set up as a DHCP 
server, too, which could cause problems). 

In the SMC router, you can setup different DNS servers from what your ISP is using, I 
prefer OpenDNS.Org which adds additional phishing and malicious website filters plus 
'smart' browsing, where you can type Google and get a list of google's sites, instead of 
www.google.com or google.com; in addition it can make suggestions as to where you might 
want to go based on what you mistyped, and blocks 404-type messages with something sane 
returned instead. Changing to someone else's DNS server keeps you from having to wonder if 
there is something wrong with your ISP's DNS server - which happens from time to time. In 
my Linksys wireless router, I have two of OpenDNS's servers listed first, the third is 
blank, and the router's DHCP request to my ISP gets the first DNS server from my ISP and 
puts it in the third spot. ALL my clients point only to the ROUTER as the DNS server from 
the DHCP request.
 

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:31:51 -0500, Julian Thomas wrote:

>2 XP machines in this house don't get nameservice through my router, and
>one of them doesn't get nameservice even when an explicit nameserver is
>set into the tcp/ip properties.
>
>The third (my brother's) is working OK using an explicit ns address but
>otherwise using DHCP. This is on a wireless connection through a Dlink WAP
>connected to the SMC (wired only) router.
>
>My T60 was getting no nameservice either wireless or wired.
>
>Here's the weird thing:  Under eCS 2.0RC2 the T60 works wired or wireless.
>This machine (no windows partition) has been working.


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