- Nov 8, 2016
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I live in a rural location & internet is provided by a wireless network. I have a transceiver mounted on my house which connects to the local church tower & thence to a water tower & then a wired network. The network is operated by a sole trader who does his best to keep it working.
I'm having problems with name resolution with this network. A lot of DNS requests fail. To try and get round this I have set my adapter to use google DNS & OPEN DNS, this is better but requests still fail. The only way I can get reliable DNS resolution is to connect a VPN to some location (the UK works well, I'm in France) then the resolution is reliable.
I put wireshark on the network to see what was happening. With the adapter set to automatic DNS server address I frequently get "request refused" & "not authoritative for this domain" responses but not always. With the adapter set to google or open dns I occasionally get the same symptom.
Clents are W10 & IOS. I get the same issues on IOS as I do on W10.
I'm not an IP expert but I do have experience of writing software for network interfaces so I'm not a total noob.
I was hoping that a knowledgeable person could suggest some other diagnostics to try so I can help my network provider fix the issue ( he needs help) I'm puzzled as to why the DNS works some of the time but not all the time and as to why setting my adapter dns to google does not wholly fix the issue. The fact that a VPN connection to the UK works properly suggests that there may be an issue with the Internet infrastructure in my region (Its quite remote) ANy help appreciated. Thanks in advance
I'm having problems with name resolution with this network. A lot of DNS requests fail. To try and get round this I have set my adapter to use google DNS & OPEN DNS, this is better but requests still fail. The only way I can get reliable DNS resolution is to connect a VPN to some location (the UK works well, I'm in France) then the resolution is reliable.
I put wireshark on the network to see what was happening. With the adapter set to automatic DNS server address I frequently get "request refused" & "not authoritative for this domain" responses but not always. With the adapter set to google or open dns I occasionally get the same symptom.
Clents are W10 & IOS. I get the same issues on IOS as I do on W10.
I'm not an IP expert but I do have experience of writing software for network interfaces so I'm not a total noob.
I was hoping that a knowledgeable person could suggest some other diagnostics to try so I can help my network provider fix the issue ( he needs help) I'm puzzled as to why the DNS works some of the time but not all the time and as to why setting my adapter dns to google does not wholly fix the issue. The fact that a VPN connection to the UK works properly suggests that there may be an issue with the Internet infrastructure in my region (Its quite remote) ANy help appreciated. Thanks in advance