on 02/12/03 12:08, Kevin Stevens at Kevin_Stevens at pursued-with.net wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Jerry Krinock wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The "Automatic" network location is wonderful but I think it's a little too >> smart for me. At home, my Powerbook G4 is connected via an Apple airport to >> our Earthlink DSL line. (The Airport does the PPPoE.) When I go to my day >> job, I sleep my powerbook, ride here on my bike and connect to a 100BT >> ethernet. I'm online instantly - very cool. >> >> However, according to our IT guru, it seems I am still connected to the >> Earthlink DSL Domain Name Server (DNS) or something like that. Thus, >> internal company IP addresses which we have set up here, for instance our >> email server, do not "resolve" to the desired company servers. >> >> Some times it seems to have switched to our internal DNS, but I don't know >> what causes it to switch. Logging out and back in does not help; probably a >> restart would. >> > > I suspect you have the Earthlink DNS server manually configured in your > Ethernet settings. When you go to work, you get new address, gateway, and > DNS information offered to you by the DHCP server; however, since yours is > manually configured it ignores the corporate DNS offering. > > Check and see if a Earthlink DNS server is manually entered, and if so > remove it (would be named ns1.earthlink.net or similar). If that fixes the > problem at work, but breaks the ability to resolve names at home, then you > have to compromise somehow - you could create different locations for work > and home under Network Settings, or find a way to script adding and > removing the Earthlink DNS setting as you suggest. > > KeS > It looks like it's on "DHCP". Here's a screen shot of my Network panel with Show=Airport http://dearjerry.home.mindspring.com/SPNetworkAirport.jpg Here it is with Show=Built-In Ethernet http://dearjerry.home.mindspring.com/SPNetworkEthernet.jpg Both of these shots are taken when I am at "work", and unable to "resolve" the local names. I shall poke around in this panel and see what I can do. If these screenshots explain the answer, please let me know. Jerry