On 10/12/17 18:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 07:08 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 10/12/17 06:08, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> I know what DDNS is. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm not
using
>> DDNS at present though I have done in the past. The router has a
>> control panel for configuring *its own* DNS resolver, i.e. where it
>> forwards queries to upstream. It was set to "dynamic", which I
>> interpret to mean "get the configuration from the ISP". (The broadband
>> connection is PPPoE so it presumably behaves like an Ethernet).
>> Changing it to explicitly point at Google is what had the desired
>> effect. It now seems likely that the kernel version was mere
>> coincidence, at least I hope so.
> It was 05:45 and still dark out. Forgot who I was talking with. Sorry about that.
No worries. Hope I didn't sound snappy, which wasn't my intention.
Hah, hah. I was more worried about my sounding condescending.
Probably the ISPs own server, but there's no easy way to know and by
this time they've probably corrected any problem they may have had.
Yeah. Oh, well....
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