[vox-tech] comcast broadband DNS

dylan vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:50:29 -0700


thanks everyone who helped out with this. i was able to get the actual
domain name servers from Larry.

Dylan

on 04.4.7 9:06 PM, Ken Bloom at kabloom@ucdavis.edu was reported to have
writen:

> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:55:41PM -0700, dylan wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone for the ideas.
>> 
>> perhaps a little more explanation is in order:
>> 
>> 1. this is for a computer network in fresno (my parents)
>> 2. they have a linksys router that does its job of sending this information
>> over to the LAN machines via DHCP.
>> 3. i needed to give one of the machines a static IP, so that i could forward
>> specific ports to that machine alone, however i could not figure out what
>> the name servers were for comcast. this made setting up a static IP
>> difficult, but in the end i used a public name server.
>> 
>> i will check in the router config, perhaps this will make everything ok!
>> 
>> thanks again!
>> 
>> dylan
>> 
> 
> You can get the information you're looking for from one of the other
> computers hooked up by DHCP. If it's linux, you'll find that in their
> /etc/resolv.conf, and if it's windows 9x/ME, you can get it by running
> winipcfg, and if it's windows NT/2k/XP, you can get it by running
> "ipconfig /all" in a windows command prompt.