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>From my experience with Comcast in Window$ or Linux I have had to setup the
network setting statically. I got all the info from tech support. I you
haven't had DHCP working before this I would suggest that you go this route
to get it setup.
Jon
On 21/01/02 14:08 -0500, William Shank wrote:
> my question is: how can I find out what the network settings my computer
> receives from dhcp? doesn't DHCP specify a DNS for lookups? how can I ind
> out what it is?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gabriel rosenkoetter
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Sent: 1/21/02 1:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] DNS Server?
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:11:11AM -0500, Jon Nelson wrote:
> > I know that Comcast technically uses DHCP, but you get a three month
> lease on
> > your IP. Whenever I have set it up Comcast has always asked me to
> input the
> > information as if it were static. Thanks to the demise of @home our
> new
> > domain will be comcast.net. According to their whois then DNS servers
> are
> > 66.45.25.71 and 66.45.25.72.
>
> The DNSes used to resolve comcast.net and the DNSes that Comcast
> wants you, the user, to hit aren't necessarily the same thing.
> (Actually, they're almost definitely NOT the same thing, if it's
> anything like every ISP I've ever used. Which, admittedly, has never
> been Comcast, or any other cable provider, but...)
>
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