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Octimon · 15-10-2008, 13:26

Hi

I wonder if someone might be able to assist with what seems to be a DNS issue.

I have a Belkin N1 router into which I have plugged my PC, printer, Home Server. Various other laptops also connect into it wirelessly.

Because of the server and printer I prefer to have everyting on a fixed IP address (would cause mighty confusion if the server or printer kept changing address). The router is configured to issue IP addresses up to 192.168.2.25 and all home machines are set with Ip addresses from 30 upwards.

However, this seems to cause problems. The router can see all the machines by IP address but not by name (but as soon as I unset the fixed IP addresses and let the router DHCP issue addresses it recognises everything by name). So any of my home machines are identified by IP address but if I connect my work laptop it is recognised as "work laptop"

This is now causing network problems as machines have stopped seeing each other within windows. I can ping the server or a machine by address e.g 192.168.X.Y but I can't ping them by name.

The IP addresses are set up as follows

IP address 192.168.2.X
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.2.1

Pref DNS server 192.168.2.1
Alt DNS server 192.168.2.1

Does anyone know what might be the problem.

Cheers

Octy

15-10-2008, 13:26	#1
Octimon Inactive Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Glasgow Services: BB XXL - but only by rebooting every other day; TV XL - with a shiny new HD box and On Demand is s Posts: 108	DNS Issue? Hi I wonder if someone might be able to assist with what seems to be a DNS issue. I have a Belkin N1 router into which I have plugged my PC, printer, Home Server. Various other laptops also connect into it wirelessly. Because of the server and printer I prefer to have everyting on a fixed IP address (would cause mighty confusion if the server or printer kept changing address). The router is configured to issue IP addresses up to 192.168.2.25 and all home machines are set with Ip addresses from 30 upwards. However, this seems to cause problems. The router can see all the machines by IP address but not by name (but as soon as I unset the fixed IP addresses and let the router DHCP issue addresses it recognises everything by name). So any of my home machines are identified by IP address but if I connect my work laptop it is recognised as "work laptop" This is now causing network problems as machines have stopped seeing each other within windows. I can ping the server or a machine by address e.g 192.168.X.Y but I can't ping them by name. The IP addresses are set up as follows IP address 192.168.2.X Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway 192.168.2.1 Pref DNS server 192.168.2.1 Alt DNS server 192.168.2.1 Does anyone know what might be the problem. Cheers Octy