[kwlug disc.] need some opinions on a misbehaving wireless network

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, John Van Ostrand wrote:

> To determine if it's DNS related try the IP addresses alone. It may
> not result in the same web page but if the browser can hit a site
> then you know DNS is the issue.

that's the first thing i tried, and it didn't appear to solve
anything, which i thought was weird.

> You mention WAP but is it the firewall too?

it can be, but i was checking the log files on the router the whole
time and it didn't appear that any of my tests were getting filtered
out by the router itself.

> I know that some of these firewalls (like LinkSys) will operate in a
> different way depending on circumstances. If the LinkSys knows the DNS
> server addresses (because it is connected to the Internet and has taken
> them from DHCP or PPPoE) then it hands those to the PCs via DHCP. If it
> doesn't know the DNS (because it's not connected) then it hands its own
> address and then it acts like a proxy.

DNS was being supplied by rogers, and handed to the individual
systems.  in short, all of the tests i would normally try didn't
narrow down the problem.

in any event, i'm going armed with extra gear tomorrow, and we'll see
what happens.  as far as rogers is concerned, everything on their side
is working fine.  i've just never seen anything like this before.

rday