static dns entry on dg834

jacobstone

Well-Known Member
Joined
Sep 23, 2003
Messages
155
Reaction score
0
Location
.
Bit random this, but does anyone know how I could get a DG834 to route a particular address to an IP other than its actual IP?

The scenario is that I have a network of about 10 pc's using an smtp server. I need to change the adsl account on the router just for a day and in that time I need them to use a different smtp server for that ISP.

Rather than go around to each PC and change their SMTP settings I was hoping I could just do something on the router (DG834) to get it to go via the other SMTP server's IP address.

I don't have a proxy or anything on this network, all the PC's use the router as their default gateway so it's either editing each SMTP or changing each PC's hosts file unless I can do something on the router.

Anyone got ideas? I know how to get into the router's linux console if I could do it there perhaps?
 
Eh well,you'd have to fool the pc's to be poiting to a different IP address than the ISP would be pointing at. Only things I could think of offhand would be the easiest - hosts file as you mentioned or running a small dns server that can handle a static assignment and telling the router to point to the static DNS as its primary ( and only dns ) instead of the ISP assigned dns
 
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X