I have a Linksys router. It is autp configed with DHCP from the ISP. It gives me my IP, Gateway and 3 DNS's.
I have all my XP boxes set up with the gateway and the DNS as 192.168.1.1 (my router's local addy). I also have my FC3 box set up that way. I tried to set up my Suse 9.3 Pro box that way but it wouldn't work. I did some cheking and checked into my ISP DNS's and found some strange things. Maybe this is normal, I don't know.
My router has 3 DNS's setup with the Auto configuration. Here are my router's given DNS's:
DNS 1: 216.144.187.199
DNS 2: 207.44.96.129
DNS 3: 216.144.187.71
I looked at this site's "linux Answer's" section about DNS's and found the "dig" command, so I did the following:
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$ dig @192.168.1.1
www.ptd.net
; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @192.168.1.1
www.ptd.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31871
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 6
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;
www.ptd.net. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.ptd.net. 84894 IN A 204.186.9.3
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ptd.net. 14103 IN NS dns2.ptd.net.
ptd.net. 14103 IN NS dns3.ptd.net.
ptd.net. 14103 IN NS dns4.ptd.net.
ptd.net. 14103 IN NS dns5.ptd.net.
ptd.net. 14103 IN NS dns6.ptd.net.
ptd.net. 14103 IN NS dns1.ptd.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns1.ptd.net. 84798 IN A 204.186.0.201
dns2.ptd.net. 84798 IN A 207.44.96.129
dns3.ptd.net. 85456 IN A 204.186.0.203
dns4.ptd.net. 171858 IN A 207.44.0.1
dns5.ptd.net. 84798 IN A 198.69.185.1
dns6.ptd.net. 84798 IN A 198.69.184.1
;; Query time: 14 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul 15 12:04:53 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 255
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Is this the right way to find DNS's? None of the DNS's listed from "dig" are the same as the ones on my router. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? Which are the ones I should use for my resolv.conf file in SuSE?
Any help is GREATLY appreciated!