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Never anonymous Bud wrote:
> Using crayons of red and green, "Warren H." <wholzem@hotmail.com>
scribbled
>
> >ROFLO!  Re-read what you just wrote. When you say "much more often than
> >Windows 2000 or XP expects it", do you mean more often than once every 4
> >days? My lease is for 4 days. Are you saying that they change DNS servers
> >more often than that? Then explain why it wouldn't affect other OS's?
>
> You're obviously confusing DNS with DHCP.
>

No, you're missing the point.

The DNS servers are configured by DHCP. If my lease doesn't expire for 4
days, then I'm not going to get a new set of DNS servers to use for 4 days.
And that's going to apply to any OS I use.

So if AT&T is changing their DNS servers "much more often than Windows 2000
or XP expects it", then they would also be changing those servers more often
than any other OS expects it because we're all using 4 day leases.

The DNS servers are NOT changing "much more often than Windows 2000 or XP
expects it". Or more often than any other OS expects it. As a matter of
fact, I've had the same DNS servers since ATTBI came online last Saturday
morning.

Once more for those in the back rows: What DNS servers are to be used is
something that is delivered in the lease you get through DHCP. Thus your DNS
servers can't change until you get a new lease regardless of what OS you're
using -- unless you go in there and manually set different DNS settings from
what was delivered through DHCP.


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Warren H.

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