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Public DNS on 2700HGV

SteveCWall — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:19:59 GMT

Does anyone know how I can configure the 2700 to supply manually selected public DNS addresses to clients?

At the monet it supplies its own address 190.168.1.254 as the DNS address - and it does not work very well.

I do not want to mave to manually configure every client.

Most routers have the option to set DNS addresses manually in the DHCP host configuration pages, but I can't find this option on the 2700.

Re: Public DNS on 2700HGV

JohnE — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:26:12 GMT

I wouldn't recommend setting up DNS addresses in the Hub, if your client machines are having difficulty with address translation, you'll need to try setting them up with suitable addresses individually.

Re: Public DNS on 2700HGV

SteveCWall — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:45:19 GMT

This essentially makes the 2700HGV useless as a business hub. Our staff use laptops and we alos host visitors through our gues wifi. It is simply not a practical proposition to manually set up every machine (often twice due to wired and wireless interfaces) and also twiddle with the laptops of our guests in order to access the web.

If this is the only option then the 2700 is not fit for purpose as a plug and play business hub.