On 28/05/10 21:34, Chris Walker wrote:
On 27/05/10 21:50, Martijn Koster wrote:
Chris Walker wrote:
With the Huawei, Windows will do lookups fine but Mandriva takes ages for everything, web searches, mail and so on. Sending this message sat there for ages doing a lookup for the smtp address before I cancelled it to add this.
I *think* I've got both sides, Windows 7 and Mandriva, setup the same with DHCP for both IP address and DNS servers but is there anything I can try before I rip the Huawei out and put back the D-Link?
If I had indeed swapped out the Huawei and re-installed the D-Link, it would have solved the problem but of course, I would not have known why.
I had both sides of the machine (Windows and Mandriva) set to DHCP for both IP address and DNS details.
If I looked at /etc/resolv.conf it showed this :- # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN nameserver 192.168.1.1 search 520b.com
The puzzle was the last line. One of my sons visited yesterday and told me that the router was providing that. Sure enough, a web search revealed that lots of people were complaining in Talktalk forums about slow searches and reaching a chinese site.
Rather than involve myself with more agravation swapping out the router yet again, I have simply disabled the DNS setting and manually entered the DNS entries for Talktalk.
What I find annoying is that Talktalk have known about this for some months - the discussions online took place last year - and yet they're still sending out hardware with badly written firmware. Who knows what else is coded in there. But perhaps that's just my cynical nature to expect such things.
Can I offer a public thank-you to Martijn who offered to come round and do the setup for me.