LinkSys Router woes...

[SaigonK]

Anyone had trouble with theirs?
I have a scenario I am trying to fix.

Got on of our bigwigs at work, he has RoadRunner Pro, i setup the router to his PC's, but for some reason one can get on the network with no issues, but the other just wont DNS resolve.
If i ping an IP# in the outside work, it sees it and replies etc etc etc.
But if i type in a domain name, it wont work at all...I am stumped.

Could it be a host file problem?

 

[BraveSirRobbin]

In your main Linksys menu (when you go to its default IP of 192.168.1.1 in Internet Explorer) look at the STATUS tab. See what the primary and secondary DNS IP's are.

Go to your computer's network settings and enter these DNS entries manually in your TCP/IP settings instead of letting the system find the DNS servers automatically.

This worked for me with my Linksys and Win2K operating system. I also updated the Linksys firmware from their website.

Hope this helps.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

it might be that you have a lack of a protocal, do you know if the lone pc worked fine before you networked it?

 

[TheOmegaCode]

also, check to see if its logged into the router

 

[SaigonK]

The second PC is logged intot he network, it gets a DHCP address and will ping outside numeric addresses.
It only seems that it wont resolve DNS requests.
I did set the DNS servers on the Linksys properties page to what is needed by RoadRunner pro, the machine did get on the network prior to installing the router.... =(


Thanks for the help!

 

[Nightfall]

Please don't run the Linksys DHCP server. I would use static IPs myself. The main reason why is that I had DHCP installed at one point in time and I had some minor problems with it. Sometimes, I wouldn't get a address from the router and then other times I wouldn't get DNS servers....it was really weird. Took the linksys back and got another one and this time I went with static IPs.

DHCP is great for a big company with hundreds of systems. For a home network, static IPs are the way to go.

Check winipcfg to see if you are getting the DNS servers and such that you have in your linksys properties. If you aren't getting them, then that is your problem. You can also try to ping those servers from the workstation and see if you get a response from them.

Otherwise, I would try static IPs. 🙂

 

[BraveSirRobbin]

<< The second PC is logged intot he network, it gets a DHCP address and will ping outside numeric addresses. >>



So you are saying it works now (after you hard set the DNS entries into the Linksys menu)?

 

[SaigonK]

It still wont work.
Even when i hardcode the DNS - in DHCP it will pick up the DNS entries.
It just seems it wont resolve any domain names.
Ip's work - domain names do not... =(

 

[BraveSirRobbin]

SaigonK

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