And if you get a recursive lookup for www.ebay.com from a hotel network, I'm struggling to understand why it's necessary to hard-code dns servers into the ip networking configuration of a portable device. By definition,
On 26/03/2013 14:21, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: these devices will already have dhcp enabled.
Nick I can only talk as a very small outfit, too often our roaming/office customers have issues with their local DNS server (in embedded devices
Well, On 03/27/13 07:20, Nick Hilliard wrote: like their $60 linksys) or the local telco (ACME Cable Company)... Having them using our DNS servers save a lot of time and a massive amount of money and headache... same idea as offering them our outgoing mail server (with authentication of course) instead of letting them deal with their Telco's. Mind you none of my 2 servers are a problem because they where always rate-limited... But a few of my clients where for an amount around ~80Mbps of amps. And got fixed within the hour. Now about the struggling about BCP38... ----- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443