[sheflug] DNS was Re: help with Broadband

[J Simpson V21 <hubblesimpson [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc wrote:

If the router can see things, then check is to make sure your
/etc/resolv.conf has the right things in it, the DHCP client on your
box usually sorts that out. On your box then you can try ping and name
lookups as well, traceroute is also useful.

Hi
I plucked up the courage and opened a terminal and typed what I thought
would list the contents cat resolv.conf and got
search localdomain

I wasn't quite sure what cat was so I opened the resolv.conf in gedit
and it said
search localdomain.

So I presume this would be the problem?  Could someone tell me what I
should have in there?  And can I do it in gedit?  Just a thought can I 
do what I have to do through network device, configure, DNS?

I have contacted my ISP they have given me two DNS server IP address.
I opened up mozilla and typed 192.168.0.1 to get to the router.
On the basic settings screen, it was marked  'get automatically from
ISP'  under DNS address.  I changed that to ''use these DNS servers' and
added the two IP addresses my ISP had given me to Primary DNS, secondary
DNS, but it didn't make any difference.

When I have changed the resolv.conf file will I be using 'get
automatically from ISP' or 'use these DNS servers'?

Regards
Janet

PS Thank you all for your assistance.

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