[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] I hate dealing with my hardware. This always feels like a complete waste of time to me. Today, after a few weeks of suffering from the lack of responsiveness of my 802.11b router (a netgear MR814v2), I got bored and looked into it.
The bottomline is that it looks like this crappy router tries to be too smart for me: it performs correctly the PPPoE connection with my ISP, gets an IP address, a set of DNS servers and a gateway IP. However, when it serves DHCP OFFER replies to my LAN machines, it replaces the DNS servers' IPs with its own IP to make sure that all DNS traffic goes through it. The bad thing about this is that it seems that this DNS server running on the router is completely flakey: it replies less than once out of 10 to my DNS requests...
If you know a way to either make this stupid hardware not be a DNS server or to get a replacement device for free (preferably, another model/brand), let me know :)
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