Re: [Nolug] Internal connection problem

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:36:30 -0600 Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu> wrote:
> Hope y'all can help with a little problem. My classroom is behind a Freesco
> router/firewall, which gets a DHCP address every time it connects. (Pretty
> often, with the number of times the external DHCP server goes down.) The
> clients have static IP addresses of 192.168.0.xxx. All the clients can
> freely access everything on the net, except the N.O. public school web site.
> Though it has a real IP address from anywhere else in the world, when you
> try to log on to www.nops.k12.la.us from inside the NOPS system the DNS
> server points you to 192.168.0.50. This is conflicting with my internal
> static addresses, and keeps giving a message that the site cannot be found.
> What can I change to be able to access this site from inside the classroom?
> (p.s. There are no other firewalled machines in the school. They get
> individual DHCP addresses and have no problem connecting to the NOPS site.)
> Thanks,
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com

What about changing your classroom's range of IP addresses to
192.168.5.xxx, so that it doesn't conflict. I picked .5 at
random, so some other number might be better suited.

Maybe if you run your own dhcpd, you can more easily play IP hop
scotch as the network admins bounce numbers around.

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