IP Addresses Keep Changing

[Bob A]

Can anyone tell me how to setup an XP machine, a 2000
machine and a 98 machine on my home network so the IP
address do not keep changing. I tried setting the IP's as
static, but I don't know what to do with DNS and
therefore couldn't get on the Internet.

Thank you in advance.
Bob

 

[Steven Hull]

You can use a public DNS, like 38.9.212.2. Go to start > run > type "CMD"
then IPCONFIG /all - it will give you the ISP that your internet provider is
using, instead of that one above.

To check to see if it is working type "NSLOOKUP" then something like
cnn.com. See if it returns a DNS record (ip address).

 

[Guest]

I did what you suggested and it seemed to work.

So now, can I use my own separate static IP addresses for
all my networked computers and the same DNS address in
each?

Sorry if I'm being dense, but this is new to me.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Steven Hull]

You could, but its recommended by Microsoft to use a DHCP server, which will
hand out configuration to all the PC's. Nothing wrong with static addresses
at all in a small network like yours.

 

[Guest]

Thank you again for all your help.
One more thing, could you point me to something that
explains DHCP servers?
Thanks,
Bob

 

[Raqueeb Hassan]

Well, a dhcp server allocates ip addresses from given ranges what you
had been doing using some static ips. Basically it eases a system
admin jobs overhead and it has too many options too. Like you can tell
what would be your router/dns server addresses to all the client
machines. So, you don't have to walk up to every machine to setup the
dns and router (gateway) and you won't see any case of ip conflicts.

hth

 

[Guest]

I set everything up according to your suggestions, but now
I can't access the internet. Here's what I have setup:
IP Address: 192.168.0.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: NONE
Preferred DNS Server: 24.92.32.21 (from ipconfig /all)
Alternate DNS Server: 24.92.33.22 (from ipconfig /all)
Advanced DNS: I selected "Append primary and connection
specific DNS suffixes" and checked "Append parent suffixes
of the primary DNS suffix"
DNS suffix for this connection: nycap.rr.com (from
ipconfig /all)

Dazed and Confused !

 

[Raqueeb Hassan]

well, you have to setup the default gateway .... the ISP's one.
Otherwise, your requests don't get forward.

 

[Guest]

Sorry if this sounds dense, but how do I find out the
ISP's gateway? The only "Gateway" I could find in
ipcong /all is my own router's IP.

Thanks again.