Re: [PLUG] New Comcast wireless modem with old Buffalo wirelessrouter

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 04:02:14PM -0500, Matt Berlin wrote:
> Oh...without switching.

Right. I mean, maybe I could do something with swapping host files on
my laptop, but there's no way it would work on iOS.

> You could setup a DNS server for your local network, and to redirect
> the domain name of your IMAP server to it's IP on the local network
> (10.1.10.SOMETHING on Comcast as far as I know).

Hmm, that might work!

> This would require your IMAP server to have a registered domain
> name.

Yep, I already have that set up.

> Are you saying that it worked without having to switch the IP with the old
> modem?

Yes. Granted, the old modem was just a modem, so all the magic
happened inside DD-WRT. It's possible I had to tweak something in its
settings to get it to work, but if so that was over 5 years ago, and
I've forgotten.

Thanks!

Walt

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