I am going to jump in at this point and ask which router is best. I do not
want a router with wireless capabilities. This router will be strictly wired
only for security reasons, since I do not want to broadcast any signal that
someone could detect. Thanks in advance for your opinion.

"smith" wrote:

Franc Zabkar wrote in
:

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:55:09 -0700, smith
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Franc Zabkar wrote in
m:

To find out if the DNS server you use is vulnerable,
click the "Check My DNS" button at this URL:
http://www.doxpara.com/

I tried this and got a "your name server appears
vulnerable message."

However I noticed that the ip address in the message did
not match the address for my DNS server in winipcfg.

Is this normal that these two addresses would differ?

I don't know, but in my case I've configured my router to
use DNS Relay. This means that winipcfg shows my router's
LAN IP as the DNS server address, and any DNS requests sent
to it are relayed to one of two DNS servers whose addresses
the router has learned from my ISP via PPP. Is it possible
that your router is configured like mine, ie is your DNS
IP, as reported by winipcfg, a LAN or WAN IP?

- Franc Zabkar

Beats me.

I don't have a router that I know of.

I plug my computer directly into a cable modem, and heaven only
knows what the cable company does.

I intended to get one but have never got around to it.

I always assumed that the winipcfg address was the cable
company's real dns server.