At 2:24 PM +0800 9/11/04, Robert Howells wrote:
The alternative to inserting the DNS numbers is to insert the Domain
name and let the server work from that.
Some people just do that ! I usually enter both from old habits !
Bob
Thanks for the DNS 101 :-) Good to know about **all** the boxes.
At 2:37 PM +0800 9/11/04, Craig Ringer wrote:
OK, then if, as Craig says, ISPs almost without exception specify
DNSs then is it fair to reason that the reported fix of entering the
DNS is working because a significant number of ISPs do *not* specify
their DNS?
Probably not. It's more likely that there's a software problem on the
affected macs that causes them not to properly pick up the DNS
information supplied by the ISPs. Maybe manually entering the DNS server
information works around the problem. This is just guesswork, as I
haven't read up on the issue, but seems a reasonable explanation for why
a fix like that would work.
Ah, ok.
I shall make my tests with all combinations and perms then.
By the sounds of it, the best thing is to leave *nothing* unspecified.
thanks for your taking the time :-)
Nancy M
