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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:04:27 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:52:36 pm | by MarcelPodstolski | Revert |
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!! Problems with Routers
-Xtra now gives out routers to new customers. These are D-Link models (502, 504T), which can lead to connection problems. (This is a D-Link issue). The DNS will not work correctly, and IP addresses will resolve to 10
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+Xtra now gives out routers to new customers. These are D-Link models (502, 504T), which can lead to connection problems. (This is a D-Link issue). The DNS will intermittently
not work correctly, and IP addresses will resolve to a different website
. These models use an old version of [Linux] with a prehistoric DNS proxy server which is known to be faulty and abandoned upstream. IanMcDonald managed to get D-Link to release latest version of firmware as they were violating [GPL]
. In theory you could fix this problem as the DNS proxy is only a very small package but the solution below is easier
.
My solution was to edit resolv.conf, and then lock the file. This will cause problems if you want to switch networks, but the file can always be unlocked and changed. I was also suggested an alternative method which I have not tried.
My method:
