David Schnur wrote:
Why isn't DHCP enabled for that connection?
I was surprised by that, too, since I am getting assigned an address; I
don't have anything set manually for that connection.
If that interface is really using PPP as indicated, I seem to recall
that PPP included its own mechanism for assigning the IP address.
I tried unsetting the domain option... The only thing I noticed is
that, with the router, the 'DNS Suffix Search List' entry is not
present. With Dnsmasq, it's always present, although empty if the
dnsmasq.conf domain option is not set.
Perhaps Dnsmasq is sending the domain DHCP option always, just with an
empty value, while the router is excluding that option from the packet.
(If you feel adventurous, a packet sniffer (Wireshark) can answer that
question.)
In any case, having a suffix present should be common, so either it is a
real fragile hack, or something else is the underlying cause of it breaking.
Have you tried specifying the DNS servers statically?
That's actually a really simple solution, and it works as expected.
Great.
In any case, this seems like mainly a Windows issue;
Yup. You'll probably get better answers in other forums. But if you get
to the bottom of it, let us know what you find.
Thanks for your help!
You're welcome.
-Tom
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