On 7/11/08, Ian Blackwell ian@ikel.id.au wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
You would set the primary dns to 127.0.0.1 and if you want set the secondary dns to what your primary dns was set at. You might have to play with the options to have dhcp assigned red and still be able to set your nameserver settings. The ipcop boxes I have are all on static ip's, on either T1's or business class DSL, so the settings are a little different.
For what it is worth, my IPCop box has the DNS values supplied by my ISP entered here instead of 127.0.0.1. My dig +trace tests are all running fine.
You entered them there and you can dig +trace from there. That's interesting. I would like to discontinue using the DNS Servers at my ISP, because: (a ) frequently slow (b) sometimes no DNS (c) the recent problem where I get to opendns.com
You can also create a backup using the web-interface. The backup will be saved on your local machine and you can restore it from there if needed.
Thank you for reminding me about that! The IPCop box I am using now, I backed up on 23 February. The Backup IPCop box, which I am going to use to test this, will need to be updated and then I will backup, before I try these changes.
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For the change to me having my own Caching DNS Server, in the settings for the ADSL modem at this time, using the DNS servers at our ISP: Primary DNS Server 200.29.104.22 Secondary DNS Server 200.29.96.22
These are the number I would enter into the IPCop setup screen for DNS and Gateway. My gateway value is the IP address of my ADSL modem.
Ian: Thank you for the information! Lanny