Dial-up and LAN connections simultaneously

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2 total messages Started by David Whitmarsh Wed, 27 Dec 1995 00:00

#970

Author: David Whitmarsh
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 00:00

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I'm having considerable difficulty setting up Win95 (using its own
TCP/IP stack) to talk sensibly to the internet service provider
(demon) and to my LAN.

I have got as far as being able to ping both through both dials-up and
ethernet interfaces, but I can't do much more than that. I have set up
separate IP addresses (using the 192.168.*.* address range for my
LAN), and have tried all combinations of DNS server cpmfigurations,
but I cannot Telnet or ftp on my LAN. I suspect the problem has to do
with domain names and DNS servers.

Any clus as to how I can get the PC to either:

a) recognise the DNS on both demon adn the LAN

or

b) set up a permanent hosts file (equivalent to unix /etc/hosts) so I
don't need to use DNS on the LAN.

Thanks,
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| David Whitmarsh    EMail djw@accessio.demon.co.uk|
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Re: Dial-up and LAN connections simultaneously

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Author: David Ripton
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:00

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David Whitmarsh (djw@accessio.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: I'm having considerable difficulty setting up Win95 (using its own
: TCP/IP stack) to talk sensibly to the internet service provider
: (demon) and to my LAN.

Me too.  (Sorry.)

: I have got as far as being able to ping both through both dials-up and
: ethernet interfaces, but I can't do much more than that. I have set up
: separate IP addresses (using the 192.168.*.* address range for my
: LAN), and have tried all combinations of DNS server cpmfigurations,
: but I cannot Telnet or ftp on my LAN. I suspect the problem has to do
: with domain names and DNS servers.

: Any clus as to how I can get the PC to either:

: a) recognise the DNS on both demon adn the LAN

: or

: b) set up a permanent hosts file (equivalent to unix /etc/hosts) so I
: don't need to use DNS on the LAN.

The only way I can make it work is to change my permanent TCP/IP DNS
settings, and then reboot.  Then when I want to go back to using the
LAN, I have to change and reboot again.  Not acceptable.

If I put my LAN as primary DNS and my dial-up as secondary, it fails.

If I set up special DNS for my dial-up connection, it doesn't use them,
even if (as documented in the lame on-line help) I uncheck the requisite
two boxes.  This is a blatant bug IMO.

Anybody solved this yet?  It wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to
reboot every time you switched DNS settings, because then a program could
be written to do it on the fly.

David Ripton    dripton@netcom.com

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