Subj : Need a little help
To   : Rich Wonneberger
From : David Calafrancesco
Date : Sat Mar 05 2005 10:19 am

Rich Wonneberger wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

 RW> *** Quoting David Calafrancesco to Rich Wonneberger dated 03-04-05
 RW> *** 
>  RW> Here is resolv2
> 
>  RW> domain turtil
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> There's your problem. That line should say what your domain name is. It
> is what is used to search for all names that are not fully qualified 
> domain names. 

 RW> David,

 RW> Are you saying it should be turtil.darktech.org, or
 RW> frontiernet.net?? 

Whatever is there will be appended to all non-fully-qualified hostnames. So, if 
you open a web browser and type www and hit enter, it would currently attempt 
to make a connection to www.turtil which would obviously fail as there is no 
top level domain called turtil. If you put frontiernet.net there and opened 
your browser and typed www, you would open www.frontiernet.net 

I often have the domain where I work in the domain field, to speed access to ny 
other work systems. 

Lastly, your hostname plus the domain listed is what the system will use to 
identify itself when asked. 

 RW> *** Quoting David Calafrancesco to Rich Wonneberger dated 03-04-05
 RW> *** 
> Note that the netgear (and any other home router/nat device) works just
> fine if you set a static IP on your local systems and manually 
> configure everything else. 

 RW> I didn't have any problems with the old Linksys router.  It
 RW> provided DHCP &  DNS.  It just gave my systems the wrong domain
 RW> name.  The Netgear (new router)  has more bells.  It can have a
 RW> reserved DHCP address for a box, and allow only  the MAC addresses
 RW> listed to go out, has SPI and a few other features I don't  really
 RW> care about.

My point was that these devices work fine with static IP assignements manually 
entered on the workstation. In fact, most of my systems here are static. Only 
the laptops and the wife's windows system use dhcp. It is not fun trying to 
figure out what IP address the printers have changed to every time you power 
the network down or something. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

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