Dear listers,
Can someone help shed light on this one? I well know that Arachne
needs to have two DNS numbers specified in the dial-up set-up page. All
the ISPs that I've tried so far have given two such numbers and
everything seems to have worked. I saw an outfit called Onetel offering
good rates, so I found their web pages and studied. There was a settings
page (useful, since - of course - they only seem to have heard of
windoze browsers) and the page seemed to have everything we need to set
up Arachne, except DNS numbers. I sent a message to 'support@...' and
fairly promptly got a reply back stating the primary and secondary DNS
numbers. BUT... on the next line, the respondent said something like,
'Try not to use these unless absolutely necessary, since they may change
due to upgrading the network'. (I might not have got that word-perfect,
but you get the idea!)
So my question is: If you DON'T use DNS numbers, how does the browser
work? Does everyone on this list put numbers in the DNS slots on the
set-up form like I always have, or have I exposed yet another facet
of my ignorance??
Thanks for any help!
Ron.
