Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-25 Thread cjl
Quoting Andy Random : On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, c...@spamcop.net wrote: I'd be interested to know what you bought and from where, and whether you are happy with it once it arrives. My Wifi router is old and originally cheap and is becoming increasingly flaky. So I'd like to replace it before i

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-24 Thread Andy Random
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, c...@spamcop.net wrote: Okay, so in the light of the many such comments, I've ordered a new router, and will go the path of a third party firmware. Although, I'll probably go with DD-WRT, just because there seems to be slightly better documentation for the things I want -

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-22 Thread john lewis
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:02:37 + Gordon Scott wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 17:23 +, Chris Dennis wrote: > > On 22/11/12 15:33, john lewis wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:05:15 + > > > john lewis wrote: > > > > > >> which has now an uptime of 429468127 hour(s) 429496727 minute(s)

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-22 Thread Gordon Scott
On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 17:23 +, Chris Dennis wrote: > On 22/11/12 15:33, john lewis wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:05:15 + > > john lewis wrote: > > > >> which has now an uptime of 429468127 hour(s) 429496727 minute(s) > > > > That is what the 504T says but it must be wrong! > > > Not ne

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-22 Thread Chris Dennis
On 22/11/12 15:33, john lewis wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:05:15 + john lewis wrote: which has now an uptime of 429468127 hour(s) 429496727 minute(s) That is what the 504T says but it must be wrong! Not necessarily -- how old are you again? :) -- Chris Dennis

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-22 Thread Alan Pope
On 22/11/12 14:17, c...@spamcop.net wrote: Okay, so in the light of the many such comments, I've ordered a new router, and will go the path of a third party firmware. Although, I'll probably go with DD-WRT, just because there seems to be slightly better documentation for the things I want - but w

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-22 Thread john lewis
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:05:15 + john lewis wrote: > which has now an uptime of 429468127 hour(s) 429496727 minute(s) That is what the 504T says but it must be wrong! -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-22 Thread john lewis
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:57:04 + Paul Stimpson wrote: > My experience has been totally the opposite. The firmware supplied > with my DLink 615 crashed multiple times a week and because they > weren't making any more of that model and it was therefore a cost to > them that wasn't being recovere

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-22 Thread cjl
Quoting Paul Stimpson : Hi, c...@spamcop.net wrote: Quoting Chris Dennis : But for something as central to the reliability of the network (and a network used by a few very non-technical people), I was hoping to avoid non-standard firmware. My experience has been totally the opposite. Th

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, c...@spamcop.net wrote: >Quoting Chris Dennis : > > > >But for something as central to the reliability of the network (and a >network used by a few very non-technical people), I was hoping to >avoid non-standard firmware. > My experience has been totally the opposite. The firmware suppl

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-22 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Wed, Nov 21 at 04:24, c...@spamcop.net wrote: ... > But for something as central to the reliability of the network (and a > network used by a few very non-technical people), I was hoping to > avoid non-standard firmware. At work we build high reliability systems very often with 3rd par

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:24:17PM +, c...@spamcop.net wrote: > But for something as central to the reliability of the network (and a > network used by a few very non-technical people), I was hoping to > avoid non-standard firmware. To be honest I would trust OpenWRT on a compatible de

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Dennis
On 21/11/12 16:24, c...@spamcop.net wrote: Quoting Chris Dennis : On 20/11/12 21:12, c...@spamcop.net wrote: If you're into a bit of hacking, you could use OpenWRT, which allows you to run all sorts of stuff on a compatible router, including a DNS server. See openwrt.org. I did think about

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-21 Thread Benjie Gillam
On 21 Nov 2012, at 16:24, c...@spamcop.net wrote: > But for something as central to the reliability of the network (and a network > used by a few very non-technical people), I was hoping to avoid non-standard > firmware. I had to flash one of my Virgin Media routers (a Netgear one, I think) with

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-21 Thread cjl
Quoting Chris Dennis : On 20/11/12 21:12, c...@spamcop.net wrote: If you're into a bit of hacking, you could use OpenWRT, which allows you to run all sorts of stuff on a compatible router, including a DNS server. See openwrt.org. I did think about that (although I couldn't remember the name

Re: [Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Dennis
On 20/11/12 21:12, c...@spamcop.net wrote: Okay, so given how many routers actually run Linux now, maybe not so OT, but anyway. I'm in the market for a new wireless router for my cable modem broadband. Obviously, every such router does DNS forwarding, but.. I was wondering if anyone kn

[Hampshire] OT: broadband router with DNS....

2012-11-20 Thread cjl
Okay, so given how many routers actually run Linux now, maybe not so OT, but anyway. I'm in the market for a new wireless router for my cable modem broadband. Obviously, every such router does DNS forwarding, but.. I was wondering if anyone knew of a router that had its own DNS se