Hi,

This topic is carrying on from http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=39&topicid=115480&page_no=2  as it started to stray from the original topic post, and i thought it need its own thread.

To summarise:

Telecom is now supplying a Pace V5542 modem which can be used for any of their  ADSL/VDSL or UFB connections (similar to a fritzbox)

When the Pace is used as a DHCP server it sets a search domain of gateway.pace.net (thanks LennonNZ). Windows machines will set this as the connection specific DNS suffix.

So when you ping or otherwise try to resolve an internal computer name (eg comp123) the name it actually looks for is comp123.gateway.pace.net

Now pace.net actually has a wildcard DNS entry so will accept any query for *.pace.net and return the IP 64.99.80.30, so the IP address that is returned is an external internet address not the internal one, breaking some network functionality

If you don't use the Pace as the DHCP or the DNS server then the problem will not appear, but for a lot of small business and home users the Pace will do both roles

I have now played with the modem again, and have not been able to find a workaround or setting to stop this DNS suffix being sent out. There is the ability to telnet to the device, but it seems to have a different username and password from the HTML admin so cannot use that to access any more advanced settings

I have queried Telecom about this and will update the thread with any replies, however it looks like they will need to adjust the firmware to resolve the issue.

Has anyone managed to get telnet access to these units? or found an easily accessible workaround that involves the modem and not using a third party DHCP or DNS server?

Clint