[OT] Richmond's DNS disease, was: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

[Richmond]

On 16/02/14 10:15, Richmond wrote:
> On 15/02/14 22:12, Mark Wieder wrote:
>> Richmond-
>>
>> Saturday, February 15, 2014, 11:43:37 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>> and "bingo", everything is lovely.
>> Yay!
>>
>
> Well "semi-bingo" insofar as individual computers can now bypass the 
> router's DNS setting (all the Linux boxes I have connected to my router),
> but other devices (my wife's iPad, my G3 iMac running 9.2) cannot, and 
> as such cannot access the websites that that DNS seems unable to reach.
>
> What makes me feel uncomfortable is that those sites seem to be the 
> ones we contact the most, which makes me wonder if somebody
> has been mucking around somewhere.
>
> Supposedly (!!!!) the ISP (BLIZOO, Bulgaria) are going to send a pair 
> of monkeys, err, strike that, "computer engineers" to play around with 
> my cable modem and my router: this, frankly, doesn't make me feel good 
> at all - who paid them, who has told them exactly what to install 
> (spybots)?
>
> Nothing would give me greater satisfaction than to greet them at the 
> door and tell them "Thanks, but  no thanks", having managed to change 
> my DNS in the router (EDIMAX TP-LINK) via the browser interface 
> myself: but I don't think that can be done . .  .
>
> Richmond.

Especially, Linux lovers, as my /etc/resolv.conf file has been blanked 
overnight so I have to redo the thing!