DNS via Linksys ADSL2MUE modem not working properly

[Neil Woolford]

Neil Woolford <neil <at> neilwoolford.co.uk> writes:

> - suggestions for further diagnostic tests to try would be very welcome.
> 
> Neil
> 
> 

A look in Carla Schroder's "Linux Cookbook" alerted me to the 'dig' command.

If I use dig to query DNS it works fine;  for example, 
"$ dig @192.168.1.1 a.domain.by.name"  
returns a sensible result, citing the DNS Server as 192.168.1.1.

In other words, the ADSL2MUE modem is appearing to be a valid nameserver, as it
should.  I've no doubt it is then forwarding the request to my ISP's real DNS
servers and pretending that the result is all its own work, but I've no problem
with that :)

So if command line tools can use the modem as a DNS Server, why can't my
applications like Firefox et al?

Neil