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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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Power goes out, your line goes down and that's due to a DNS problem? That sounds odd.
DNS is the mechanism by witch names are converted to addresses. The way that everything on the Internet communicates is by IP address. People aren't good at remembering IP addresses, so instead, most things on the Internet are given names, and the names are associated to IP addresses. DNS servers are responsible for giving you the IP address for something.
WDFifteen "I want to go to google.com"
WDF's computer to DNS server "what's the address of google.com"
DNS server response "10.10.10.10"
It's possible that the modem might need to talk to a DNS server for the link to be up, but that seems weird. If you have access to the modem, then you may be able to configure a bunch of DNS servers around the Internet, but the modem may need a very specific server (something internal to Frontier).
It seems odd to me that DNS would take a line down. I do work in networking, but I've never worked on DSL setups.
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