Does LinkSys BEFSX41Router/Switch Work As a DNS Server?

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Actually, DNS is a requirement for the entire internet so that you
don't have to remember ip addresses. It is not limited to just the
WWW. WWW != the internet.
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I see. This means the name of a FTP site also needs DNS to translate
into its IP address. In other words, DNS is used for WWW and FTP and
the like. Thanks for pointing this out.

Jay Chan
 
I'm happy that it has worked out for you as well.

Turned out there is more to this story.

With the help of tech support, I discovered that the firmware of my
LinkSys broadband router was buggy. I could not connect to internet
from neither my WinXP PC nor my Win98se PC. The only way to get
connected is to use a dialer (in effect bypassing the router), and that
was the way I connected to internet for the many months that I have
used DSL (I didn't know anything better). I fix the problem by
downgrading the firmware in that router. Now, everything works the way
it is supposed to. This means both the WinXP PC and the Win98se can
share the DSL connection without using a dialer.

This gets me thinking whether the problem that I experienced with Win95
might have something to do with the buggy firmware in the router. I
will not find out because I will not replace the Win98 with Win95.

Jay Chan
 
Turned out there is more to this story.

With the help of tech support, I discovered that the firmware of my
LinkSys broadband router was buggy. I could not connect to internet
from neither my WinXP PC nor my Win98se PC. The only way to get
connected is to use a dialer (in effect bypassing the router), and that
was the way I connected to internet for the many months that I have
used DSL (I didn't know anything better). I fix the problem by
downgrading the firmware in that router. Now, everything works the way
it is supposed to. This means both the WinXP PC and the Win98se can
share the DSL connection without using a dialer.

This gets me thinking whether the problem that I experienced with Win95
might have something to do with the buggy firmware in the router. I
will not find out because I will not replace the Win98 with Win95.
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There's more than one reason to use Win98se over Win95, so that sound
like a good decision in spite of your router difficulties.
 
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