D-Link 504 Question/Problem

Mixie

It's been bugging me for a while now, but it seems that my PCs and router are all been given the name "rfc1918.space.should.not.be.used.on.publicips". I was wondering if this is happening to anyone else? If you do a tracert to your routers IP you'll know...

C:\Documents and Settings\Mixie>tracert 192.168.0.1

Tracing route to rfc1918.space.should.not.be.used.on.publicips [192.168.0.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms rfc1918.space.should.not.be.used.on.publicips [192.168.0.1]

Trace complete.

If you don't have this problem (and you have a D-Link 504) could you please reply with any configuration changes you may have made to the defaults? Thanks.

MrPinK

I've a d-link dsl-300+ and it uses the same name for the router as default alright. I just added a hosts file entry to give it a new name.

Mixie

Why didn't I think of that?

Thanks MrPink. Now all I have to do is figure out what Samba machine doesn't show up in Network neighbourhood since the change

bricks

On your PC's set the DNS settings to use the ISP's DNS servers directly instead of using the router as a DNS server.
The DLINK DNS proxy/forwarder must be giving all the internal addresses this name when there are reverse lookups being done.

Mixie

Thanks bricks, but unfortunately this was one of the first things I tried, and it didn't fix it

Mixie

Update:

Now fixed (in no small part to Flamegrill). Turns out the problem is Netsource's DNS servers - if you use another DNS server (non-Netsource) it should be fine.