🚀 go-pugleaf

 I goofed in my last reply. Actually, my lease shows 12 hours, not 24.
 I overlooked that it started at PM and expires at AM...
 this could be my settings, but I dunno.
 It has not been a problem anyway.

"Warren H." <wholzem@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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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.
>
>
> --
> Warren H.
>
> ==========
> Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my employer, my
> friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife. Any resemblance to the views
> of anybody living or dead is coincidental. No animals were hurt in the
> writing of this response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants
to
> go outside now.
>
>
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