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 Subject :Mesh DNS Failure.. 2014-02-08- 16:50:13 
KG1L
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Joined: 2013-06-28- 12:53:53
Posts: 18
Location: Owings, MD

I have three nodes, two of which have been up for a couple of months, and one I just setup tonight. All of them show the other two nodes as neighbors and shows them by name.  If I click on the link, the DNS lookup fails.
  
If I enter the IP address for the node (port 8080), I can get to them.  As a work-around, I put them in my host table.  This works for my three hosts, but is not realistic for connecting to a larger, ad-hoc network. 
 
How do I set up the nodes so that a PC connected to one of the LAN connections on a node, can get DNS support without having to do something on my computer?
 

I looked around the forum and did not see this mentioned anywhere.



73 de Karl, KG1L
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 Subject :Re:Mesh DNS Failure.. 2014-02-09- 14:20:53 
KG1L
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Joined: 2013-06-28- 12:53:53
Posts: 18
Location: Owings, MD

To clarify, The three nodes all run BBHN v1.  WRT54GL v1.1, WRT54GL v1.1, WRT54G v4.2.

I connect the PC directly to a LAN port on the node.
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 Subject :Re:Mesh DNS Failure.. 2014-02-18- 06:41:06 
KG1L
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Joined: 2013-06-28- 12:53:53
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Location: Owings, MD
I figured out the problem. A couple of months ago, I was trying to connect one of my nodes to my home network. In the process, I had modified the DNS setting on my Win7 computer. I noticed this when I looked at all the ipconfig data and saw that the DNS was still showing 168.192.1.1 (home network), while the IP address of my pc was 10.22.115.2. This IP address was consistent with the node I was connected to, but the DNS was wrong. After I went in and changed the DNS setting to "automatic", it worked as advertised.
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