DNS via Linksys ADSL2MUE modem not working properly

[Tony Arnold]

Neil,

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 19:34 +0000, Neil Woolford wrote:

> No, that works fine too.  But *most* apps still don't get out to the internet
> through the ADSL2MUE without me tweaking the configuration to add my ISP's DNS
> addresses ahead of 192.168.1.1
> 
> However, update-manager does work fine out of the box, Firefox (for example)
> doesn't.  I can tweak things to make the system work fine, it is just that I
> don't think I should *need* to.

Does Firefox not work at all, or does it get there if you leave it long
enough? I had similar problems which I fixed by removing any search
domains from the dns set up.

Regards,
Tony.
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