We got a new router with our AT&T Uverse subscription, and the router web interface, besides being really really plain in functionality (please please add custom DNS servers), tried to resolve gateway.2wire.net when checking for updates and other things. The internet didn’t really provide much info, but eventually I figured out that it should resolve to the router’s internal IP address. I assume it would have added that on Windows automatically with the install CD, but because I am on a Mac and stay away from silly install CDs, I had to edit my /etc/hosts file manually. Simply add gateway.2wire.net somewhere after the IP address for your router, like so:
192.168.1.1 gateway.2wire.net
Everything worked as expected afterwards!
As an update, unfortunately I now get complaints about a second router being connected to my first router. Stupid 2Wire. I guess I will leave it as it was before and just add the hosts stuff if I want to check for updates.
More updates! For some reason it kept giving me the warning about the router behind the router, so I found a setting to disable it and it seems to work alright. To find it, just go to your gateway’s address and append /mdc, like so: http://192.168.1.1/mdc, then to Local Network -> Configure and uncheck the setting that says “Enable Router behind Router alert.” Voila!
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