If your DSL router stopped working last week... here's a fix.

[Stark]

Sometime last week my trusty Negear 4 port dsl router quit on me. If I connected my dsl modem directly to my computer and used XP's built in PPPoe dialer, everything was fine.

So after one call to earthlink customer no-service ("don't use a router"), I figured out a fix. Connect with PPPoe, find your DNS addresses (at comand prompt: ipconfig /all) and put the dns settings in your router. Lo and behold, your router will magically work again.

Just trying to help.

 

[ultimatebob]

That's weird. I have my Linksys DSL router connected through Earthlink, and their DHCP server properly assigns me the proper primary and secondary DNS addresses. I hard coded them in anyway, however, because it can never find the tertairy DNS server.

 

[SendTrash]

hey.. worked for me! thanks!!

 

[FatAlbo]

Here's a list to a bunch of OpenNIC DNS addresses. I started using these servers during the great @home to ATTBI transition when they were having all sorts of DNS server issues and have had no problems with them. Hope this helps for anyone else having DNS issues.

 

[gotsmack]

tagged for later

 

[Kadarin]

Ah, the joys not not having to deal with that PPPoE crap...

I suppose your "fix" depends on why the router's not working properly in the first place.