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 password as you indicate... > My thought would be if someone had hacked your router, they are likely > to do far more than just fudge your DNS addresses! Well, not to ones of > a bona fide DNS provider. Yes, I've been mulling this over, and came to the same conclusion as you. I think I must have changed the DNS myself, and forgotten both why and that I had. I plead senility! >> I guess that NetworkManager will have picked up the DNS IP from the >> router, and written it to /etc/resolv.conf? > > Correct. Strictly it will be the DHCP bit which gets invoked by Network > Manager. Thanks for your help. I've already learnt a lot about DNS. I'm going to follow up the articles mentioned in this blog for starters http://anil.org.in/2008/07/06/learn-ip-networking/ to learn more about the basics. Thanks again Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
