Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Mac
Tony Arnold wrote: > Is your router set up to allow management from the WAN side? If so have > you changed the default password to something suitably obscure? Tony >>> Thanks for your thoughts about this. My router isn't set up to manage from the WAN; and I have, anyway, replaced the default pa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Tony Arnold
Mac, Mac wrote: > Tony Arnold wrote: > >> No, nothing to do with me! > > Didn't really think it was. In fact 213.130.128.32 belongs to > > NetServices Plc > Network Operations Centre > Waters Edge Business Park > Modwen Road > Salford M5 3EZ > United Kingdom > > You see: Salford. You've got

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Mac
Sean Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Mac > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Modwen Road >> Salford M5 3EZ >> United Kingdom >> >> You see: Salford. You've got to worry, haven't you?! ;-) > > I'd be more worried if it was Bucharest... > >> I guess that NetworkManager will have pic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Sean Miller
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Modwen Road > Salford M5 3EZ > United Kingdom > > You see: Salford. You've got to worry, haven't you?! ;-) I'd be more worried if it was Bucharest... > I guess that NetworkManager will have picked up the DNS IP from the > router

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Mac
Tony Arnold wrote: > No, nothing to do with me! Didn't really think it was. In fact 213.130.128.32 belongs to NetServices Plc Network Operations Centre Waters Edge Business Park Modwen Road Salford M5 3EZ United Kingdom You see: Salford. You've got to worry, haven't you?! ;-) > Your DNS ad

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Mac
Sean Miller wrote: > Are you using static IP addresses perchance on your network? > > I'm using DHCP and the resolv.conf sets itself to the router which > then deals with DNS - don't have any hardcoded Manchester ones on the > Linux boxes. Sean >>> I don't think I'm using static IP as such. To e

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Tony Arnold
Mac, Mac wrote: > When I did this, I discovered (a) that the DNS I was using hadn't been > patched, and (b) that it was not the server I thought I was using! > > You see, I assumed I was using my ISP's DNS server, because that was > entered in my router settings. But it seems that is overridd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Sean Miller
Are you using static IP addresses perchance on your network? I'm using DHCP and the resolv.conf sets itself to the router which then deals with DNS - don't have any hardcoded Manchester ones on the Linux boxes. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-

[ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Mac
I should start by saying I don't know much about DNS and how it works. So I wonder if any of you knowledgeable folks have the time to enlighten me about something I just discovered. I was reading about the patch to DNS that's just been released (and my Ubuntu systems picked up the updates today