strange DNS issue?

1 Nov 2006 1:46 PM

rhesus

the internet drops out intermittedly. I ran a netsh diag and there were 2
failed items. One was the network card and the other DNS failed.

But the dns address it was showing wasn't the router /gateway I normally see
in ipconfig etc., it was an external dns address I believe is the isp's.

I reboot router and get internet back and dns is back to 192.168.1.1

What? Why is this?

3 Nov 2006 7:31 PM

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rhesus wrote:

> the internet drops out intermittedly. I ran a netsh diag and there
> were 2 failed items. One was the network card and the other DNS
> failed.
>
> But the dns address it was showing wasn't the router /gateway I
> normally see in ipconfig etc., it was an external dns address I
> believe is the isp's.
>
> I reboot router and get internet back and dns is back to 192.168.1.1
>
> What? Why is this?

That address 192... is not your ISP: It's the computer-side address on your
switch/router/whatever - the computer you are on. Try
http://whatismyip.com/ to see your external IP. It's quick, fast and easy.

HTH
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