DNS via Linksys ADSL2MUE modem not working properly

[Derek Broughton]

Neil Woolford wrote:

> Neil Woolford <neil <at> neilwoolford.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> - suggestions for further diagnostic tests to try would be very welcome.
> 
> 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.
> 
...
> 
> So if command line tools can use the modem as a DNS Server, why can't my
> applications like Firefox et al?

Hang on!  That's not fair.  You apparently had to tell dig to use
192.168.1.1 as the domain server.  Did you get a different result from:

# dig a.domain.by.name

If so, no wonder apps aren't getting the right result. 
Change /etc/resolv.conf to specify 192.168.1.1 as the DNS.  Change your
DHCP client config to make sure that doesn't get changed.  
-- 
derek