I just installed a Netgear WGR614v4 54g router, latest firmware V5.0_02 pre-installed. I cloned my MAC address and connected to cable modem. I had previously been running an SMC7004WFW-802.11b router against this same cable modem. (The wireless in that one started dying occasionally, but I don't think I ever had a DNS issue.)
Both my wired desktop and Netgear WG511 54g wireless laptop are having the same DNS problem: Some sites resolve just fine, and I can ping or surf. Other sites don't resolve. some resolve, but too late for a web page. (I ping after the web fails and it's okay, and then I can surf.)
Occasionally, a site that worked fails. It seems that I can ipconfig /flushdns and then the sites all seem to work.
Something is a little snarky and I don't know where to look, exactly. tracert will tell me where routing breaks down, but if I can't resolve a hostname, how do I know where to place blame?
Windows XP - SP2 on both desktop(home) and laptop(pro). The DHCP-supplied DNS is the address of the router. I suppose I could adjust that temporarily to the address supplied to the router, but I like default setups that work ;-(
I've power cycled the cable modem and router, and rebooted the laptop and desktop. No change.
side note: handy feature on this router. It has a redirected home page so that as soon as I brought up a browser, I found myself at a router config page. I didn't have to put in the address of the router. When I finished basic config, it told me this config page wouldn't show up in the future.