[Dnsmasq-discuss] Mailing list digest format abuse (was: Re: Dnsmasq-discuss Digest, Vol 49, Issue 9)

Wed Jun 17 16:16:23 BST 2009

Am 17.06.2009, 15:54 Uhr, schrieb Philippe Faure <philippe at faure.ca>:

> Hello Jack,
>
> I have worked with Dlink routers.  I have found that the LAN IP
> Address range need to be include the router's IP address.
>
> Philippe

Philippe,

may I kindly utter two requests:

Please *DO NOT* reply to digest messages, as that breaks the subject,  
references, and threading.

Please *DO* either use a software that can split digests up, or one that  
can reply to individual messages in a digest batch.

Thank you.

Simon,

can you prohibit digest subscriptions and put all subscribers (or at least  
offenders that replied to digests) on individual message delivery?

Thanks.

Best regards
Matthias

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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:04:32 +0000
>> From: jack seth <bird_112 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Need help accessing my modem through my
>> 	router
>> To: <dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk>
>> Message-ID: <SNT107-W1316D3EB7D794386645D06BF3C0 at phx.gbl>
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>> Ok, I have a linksys router running dd-wrt firmware which is running
>> dnsmasq.  My lan is on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet.  I would like to
>> be able to access my dsl modem through the router by its ip address
>> and its hostname.  Of course the modem is connected to the WAN side
>> of the router, so I added a ip address in the same subnet as the
>> modems address (which is 192.168.2.254) to my router's wan port
>> (which is vlan2) with this command
>>
>> ifconfig vlan2 192.168.2.222 netmask 255.255.255.0
>>
>> I also added this iptables rule to get traffic back
>>
>> iptables -I POSTROUTING -t nat -o vlan2 -d 192.168.2.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
>>
>> Here is the strange stuff that is happening.  If I try to access the
>> modem by ip address (192.168.2.254) it seems the modem redirects the
>> browser to 'launchmodem.com' (which is one of the ways you can reach
>> the modem by name) before the homepage will appear.  Well this
>> fails.  I figured modifying my 'hosts' file on my notebook (running
>> Vista Ultimate) would solve the problem and it did.  So I thought
>> instead of modifying my hosts file in Vista I would modify the hosts
>> file on the router then any computer on the lan would be able to
>> reach the modem.  I did that but it seems that Vista isn't using the
>> host info from the router.  So I tried adding these commands to
>> dnsmasq
>>
>> address=/launchmodem/192.168.2.254
>> address=/launchmodem.com/192.168.2.254
>> address=/www.launchmodem.com/192.168.2.254
>>
>> When I do this I can ping the modem FROM THE ROUTER all three ways
>> i.e 'launchmodem', 'launchmodem.com', and 'www.launchmodem.com'  I
>> can also ping the modem from the router all three ways with these
>> added to the router's hosts file.  However, from my notebook I can
>> only ping 'launchmodem.com', and 'www.launchmodem.com' but NOT
>> 'launchmodem' (host not found).  Another oddity, I can only reach
>> the modem in my browser with 'launchmodem.com' not with
>> 'www.launchmodem.com' even though I can ping 'www.launchmodem.com'.
>>
>> Can anyone advise me on what is going on here and how to  
>> troubleshoot/fix?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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>> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:25:40 +0200
>> From: Rune Kock <rune.kock at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Fwd: Need help accessing my modem through
>> 	my	router
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>> From: Rune Kock <rune.kock at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:25
>> Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Need help accessing my modem through my  
>> router
>> To: jack seth <bird_112 at hotmail.com>
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>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:04, jack seth<bird_112 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> However, from my notebook I can only ping 'launchmodem.com',
>>> and 'www.launchmodem.com' but NOT 'launchmodem' (host not found).
>>
>> I think that the Windows ping command does not always use DNS to find
>> the host. ?Sometimes it uses netbios methods, which usually means
>> trying a broadcast and see whether anything responds. ?Maybe pinging
>> launchmodem. with a final dot will change it? ?Or you could try
>> nslookup, though that has its own set of problems. ?Best would be to
>> test with a Linux-system instead.
>>
>>> Another
>>> oddity, I can only reach the modem in my browser with  
>>> 'launchmodem.com' not
>>> with 'www.launchmodem.com' even though I can ping  
>>> 'www.launchmodem.com'.
>>
>> Sounds to me like the modem is rejecting that domain when it gets the
>> http request.
>>
>>> Can anyone advise me on what is going on here and how to  
>>> troubleshoot/fix?
>>
>> If in doubt, run wireshark.
>>
>>
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