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[Lycan]

Try this.
Swap the two DNS servers manually. Set the Primary as secondary and vise versa.

[pagefault]

Try this.
Swap the two DNS servers manually. Set the Primary as secondary and vise versa.

Same result. 

[Lycan]

Weird.
I'd just use the OPENDNS ones for now. I'll see what I can dig up.

-Anyone else having problems like this?

[pagefault]

Weird.
I'd just use the OPENDNS ones for now. I'll see what I can dig up.

The OpenDNS servers are no good, because if they don't find a name they return an OpenDNS web server address instead of "not found".

This interferes with my ability to access other computers in my home, because trying to connect to "MYCOMPUTERNAME" results in me being connected to OpenDNS.

[pagefault]

I'll see what I can dig up.

BTW, I don't mean to sound ungrateful - thanks for trying!

[Lycan]

Ahh,
Well then you want an internal DNS server anyway. Hopping your entire LAN DNS resolution outside then back in for name resolution is not the best.
Are you running a domain?

[pagefault]

Ahh,
Well then you want an internal DNS server anyway. Hopping your entire LAN DNS resolution outside then back in for name resolution is not the best.
Are you running a domain?

No, if DNS resolutoin fails, NetBIOS name resolution kicks in. OpenDNS prevents NetBIOS resolution from having a chance to work.

[Lycan]

LOL. yea your kinda stuck. What downgrading the firmware? Any effect?

[KevTech]

I posted about something similar to this - Issues with 1.20 firmware

Going back to 1.11 solved it for me.

[Lycan]

I posted about something similar to this - Issues with 1.20 firmware

Going back to 1.11 solved it for me.

PAgefault, does this work for you?

[rgalan]

The OpenDNS servers are no good, because if they don't find a name they return an OpenDNS web server address instead of "not found".

This interferes with my ability to access other computers in my home, because trying to connect to "MYCOMPUTERNAME" results in me being connected to OpenDNS.

If you create an account with OpenDNS, they allow you to add internal names such as "MYCOMPUTERNAME", which when you try to look up via DNS will not resolve but will return it back to your NetBIOS to handle. See their step-by-step info here:

http://www.opendns.com/support/article/148

Sounds like you might be looking for that feature?

[Lycan]

Sweet. I did not know that, I'm going to try it.

[Groknar]

I am having the exact same problem. When I was using the 1.11 bios everything was working great. I switched to 1.21 with securespot enabled and I started seeing this 3-4 second delay on all web pages but my download speeds and ping time where unchanged. I thought maybe the securespot filtering system might have been overloaded and slowing me down, but I just switched to the OpenDNS servers and now my internet page responses are back to where they used to be. Oh, and I have Comcast as my internet provider. 15mb down and 1.5mb up. Like I said throughput is fine it's just navigating to a new page that is painfully slow!

[pagefault]

If you create an account with OpenDNS, they allow you to add internal names such as "MYCOMPUTERNAME", which when you try to look up via DNS will not resolve but will return it back to your NetBIOS to handle. See their step-by-step info here:

http://www.opendns.com/support/article/148

Sounds like you might be looking for that feature?

That does make it better, but I still don't like the idea that OpenDNS will return a result for addresses that don't exist. I know that's a "feature" for them, but I really don't like it.

[pagefault]

PAgefault, does this work for you?

I have to confess, I actually don't have a DIR-655...I have a DIR-825.

I suspect the software on the DIR-825 is almost identical to the DIR-655 software, the main difference is the second radio. It makes sense that the DIR-825 and the DIR-655 are having the same DNS issue.

Unfortunately, this means I have no older firmware to downgrade to.