Re: [sheflug] DNS was Re: help with Broadband

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 00:18 +0000, J Simpson V21 wrote:
> 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

Good for you :)

Well, it looks like your resolv.conf is wrong.

> 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.

It wouldn't make a difference. That setting is for the router itself - I
reckon the router knows the DNS servers already.

Did you configure the network on your desktop manually, or is it
configured automatically? You would usually set it to DHCP, but that
should bring in the DNS server entry in resolv.conf, which you're
missing.

If you change your /etc/resolv.conf to:

search localdomain
nameserver 192.168.0.1

.... I would bet that things begin to work. However, if you have set
DHCP and it's not working, it could be that it gets trashed at some
point after. So, you need to look hard at your network configuration I'm
afraid.

Cheers,

Alex.


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