ADSL DNS nightmare... I think it's DNS anyhoo

[Tumble]

righty. My problem is that I can't acces www.krisl.net Now I wouldn't be too bothered, but that's where all my "stuff" resides, and the server upon which my email lives. Everyone else I've asked can see it, except me. I can access ANYWHERE else but that site.

I've tried a ping to www.krisl.net and I get..

pinging www.krisl.net [195.10.122.20]

reply from 195.10.119.90: Destination net unreachable

The IP in bold is apparently my ADSL gateway according to the admin interface for my router (D-Link DSL 504).

My DNS is set to 195.10.102.11 and 195.10.102.12 and proxy DNS is turned off. I don't know what else to try tbh

[Jiff Lemon]

You trying to access it from the internal network or from the outside world?

[Tumble]

from an internal network - through the router

[Jiff Lemon]

Destination net unreachable would suggest you've no route to the server.

Tracert it and see where it stops.

Is 195.10.119.90 a single static IP from your ISP? and then your running a private range behind the router?

[Paul Adams]

If you're using a private subnet and NAT is active on the router, it's most likely dropping your requests as spoofed, and you will have to use a HOSTS file where you have the internal IP of the server on all the clients.

I have this same issue at home with my Netgear ADSL router - it would be ideal if the router manufacturers cater for this by having a tab in the web interface to have "DNS override" values for given domains/URLs, maybe one day...


HOSTS is a text file that goes in %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Drivers\etc and you need a line with the format:

IP address [space/tab] hostname

e.g.
192.168.123.88 www.krisl.net

[Tumble]

it stops at 195.10.119.90 - which my router says is it's internet gateway NAT is.. err disabled I think.. have to check when I get home.


EDIT: It's sorted now - I restarted the router without NAT running, then turne dit back on and kicked the thing again. It's resolving away now