Re: BT HomeHub Networking Woes

["Alan Middleton" <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Something in the back of my head says windows 7 defaults the dns
domain to 'home' unless you override that behaviour in the tcpip
properties.

I may be misremembering and since I use .home as the local domain for my
network so I can't readily check but I don't think I'd have been that
'creative' unless something nudged me down that path.

I guess the solution is either to fix the windows 7 client from the
advanced tcpip settings or to update the router to be the dns for *.home
and update the dhcp settings accordingly.

Hope that helps,

Alan.

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Sent: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:29:30 +0100
From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BT HomeHub Networking Woes

> Hi Tim,
>
> Just discovered something else about this....
>
> My server is XP Pro, just fired up a couple of my XP Machines, one Pro
one
> Home and if I type "ping khan" both come back "pinging
khan 192.168.0.4"
>
> "Its fixed" I thought, so fired up laptop (Win 7 Pro)
>
> Ping khan
>
> Pinging khan.home 216.146.35.99  :(
>
> But this was with a wireless connection.
>
> Changed to a WIRED connection
>
> Ping khan
>
> Pinging khan.home 192.168.0.4  :)
>
> Went back to Wifi and its still screwed. No idea what is causing it
but it
> doesn't seem to be the .home suffix causing the problem, but it does
appear
> to be the Wifi.
>
> WTF ???????????????????????
>
> Keith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Tim Hawes
> Sent: 27 September 2010 10:24
>
>
> I did notice when pinging machines that ".home" was
> being appended - I don't remember this happening with the old router.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

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