Hi all,
I have Verizon and a new Samsung Galaxy S4. My laptop can connect to my S4 via mobile hotspot just fine. I'm assigned an IP address and I can ping the gateway. However, DNS is not working at all. So I'm unable to access websites by name. I can access websites if I use the IP address directly. Likewise, I can ping hosts fine if I use the IP address but I can't if I use the hostname.
I tried manually setting my DNS servers to Google's DNS servers in my wireless adapter settings, however, the connection appears not to honor those settings.
If I do an nslookup while connected to the hotspot, it uses the configured gateway address as the dns server:
C:\Users\pzurek>nslookup Yahoo!
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.43.1
*** UnKnown can't find Yahoo! No response from server
C:\Users\pzurek>ipconfig
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2600:100e:b004:fc2f:2565:5146:c809:129c
Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2600:100e:b004:fc2f:e897:6468:d765:c2
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::2565:5146:c809:129c%12
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.43.99
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::ce3a:61ff:feb0:1808%12
192.168.43.1
When I'm connected to my home wireless lan it uses Google's DNS server as expected:
C:\Users\pzurek>nslookup Yahoo!
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ds-any-fp3-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com
Addresses: 2001:4998:f00d:1fe::3000
2001:4998:44:4::c:9101
2001:4998:44:4::c:9102
2001:4998:f00d:1fe::3001
98.139.183.24
98.138.252.30
98.139.180.149
98.138.253.109
Aliases: Yahoo!
fd-fp3.wg1.b.yahoo.com
ds-fp3.wg1.b.yahoo.com
ds-any-fp3-lfb.wa1.b.yahoo.com
Any idea how I get DNS working while tethering via mobile hotspot?
Thanks!
I have Verizon and a new Samsung Galaxy S4. My laptop can connect to my S4 via mobile hotspot just fine. I'm assigned an IP address and I can ping the gateway. However, DNS is not working at all. So I'm unable to access websites by name. I can access websites if I use the IP address directly. Likewise, I can ping hosts fine if I use the IP address but I can't if I use the hostname.
I tried manually setting my DNS servers to Google's DNS servers in my wireless adapter settings, however, the connection appears not to honor those settings.
If I do an nslookup while connected to the hotspot, it uses the configured gateway address as the dns server:
C:\Users\pzurek>nslookup Yahoo!
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.43.1
*** UnKnown can't find Yahoo! No response from server
C:\Users\pzurek>ipconfig
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2600:100e:b004:fc2f:2565:5146:c809:129c
Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2600:100e:b004:fc2f:e897:6468:d765:c2
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::2565:5146:c809:129c%12
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.43.99
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::ce3a:61ff:feb0:1808%12
192.168.43.1
When I'm connected to my home wireless lan it uses Google's DNS server as expected:
C:\Users\pzurek>nslookup Yahoo!
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ds-any-fp3-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com
Addresses: 2001:4998:f00d:1fe::3000
2001:4998:44:4::c:9101
2001:4998:44:4::c:9102
2001:4998:f00d:1fe::3001
98.139.183.24
98.138.252.30
98.139.180.149
98.138.253.109
Aliases: Yahoo!
fd-fp3.wg1.b.yahoo.com
ds-fp3.wg1.b.yahoo.com
ds-any-fp3-lfb.wa1.b.yahoo.com
Any idea how I get DNS working while tethering via mobile hotspot?
Thanks!
