[OT] Linksys routers, DHCP, and DNS

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 8/23/05, Allen Taylor <agtnews-PeCUgM4zDv73fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:50:06AM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > I got the Rogers cable connection yesterday and it works fine, even
> > living up to the
> > advertised speed (well, on Sunday night...)  While reconfiguring my
> > boxes I noticed
> > one oddity.  The Linksys router I brought from my past life now seems to run a
> > proxy DNS server and advertises itself (192.168.1.1) as such in DHCP replies.
> > It works just fine if I list it as the only nameserver entry in
> > resolv.conf.  The thing is
> > I can swear it didn't do this before - with the Comcast cable
> > connection I had in
> > California it just passed on the IP#s of Comcast's nameservers.  Anyone with an
> > idea what could cause this different behaviour?
> 
> Basically, you can use any name server you want. When I was with Rogers,
> I used their name servers directly on each box. When I switched to
> Primus DSL, I decided not to have to change all boxes every time I
> changed providers, so I set my router up like your Linksys, proxying the
> DNS service for all internal machines.
> 
> So you're OK either way.

I know.  It's just the mystery, why the router acts differently.
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