[X4U] Home Networking Questions ( Static IP verses DHCP)

[Allan Hise]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Eugene Lee wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:03:19PM -0700, Allan Hise wrote:
> :
> : On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Eugene Lee wrote:
> :
> : > DHCP sets the gateway IP address, DNS server addresses, and other useful
> : > bits besides assigning an IP address for that machine.  There are times
> :
> : I know it is supposed to do that, but whenever I take my ibook someplace
> : with a wireless hotspot, I always get an IP address and gateway address
> : via DHCP but it never fills in the DNS servers. I can usually make it work
> : by pasting in some known public DNS servers, but what's wrong with my
> : setup? Why doesn;t it automagically get the DNS server?
> :
> : Oh, and it isn't only wireless. When I'm traveling for work, I plug into
> : the newtork "over there" and I don't get DNS either....
>
> How can you sure that your network settings are not getting their DNS
> settings from the DHCP server?  That doesn't make sense if your Internet
> connections in those other places still work as expected.

The network connection does not work (more specifically there is no name
resolution) until I manually insert a DNS server into the network control
panel. The DNS server section of the control panel is empty after DHCP,
where the other info gets filled in (IP address, etc.)

That's how I know.

Allan