Hi Shawn. Congratulations on your linux install. Mdk is a very good distro for desktop. But i see you arrived at the conclusion yourself. I would check, if the router has the correct settings for the dns servers it uses for resolving requests. Sometimes a (wrong) information is posted there. To be absolutle sure: dig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This should render the ip adress and other information if that dns server before the @ char is a working one. If not. Well you just found the problem. Check the first (primary) dns first, then check the secondery etc... Hope that helped . Cheers Szemir On April 13, 2004 21:53, Shawn wrote: > Hi gang. > > I decided it was about time to install a Linux desktop system, and settled > on Mandrake 10 Community edition. I was impressed with the install, and > the overall system seems to be working very well. My hardware was mostly > detected automagically (except the printer, but set that up afterwards), > and the performance of the system is very good. > > However, for some reason, I'm having problems getting my network config > setup properly. I have gone through the system configuration tool and > removed eth0 outright, then added it back in taking care to enter all the > details properly (I'm not using DHCP) including my default gateway and name > server (both at 192.168.0.1). However, name resolution constantly fails > for me. I tried to look through /etc for an appropriate resolv.conf file > or something similar, but haven't been able to find one. I did find the > nsswitch.conf file, but didn't see anything in there that would really help > (not that I fully understand how that file works). My windows installation > (different hard drive, same box) and my Gentoo server is setup with the > same info and are able to connect to the Internet fine. I've tried logging > in as my regular user account, as well as root, and both accounts are > affected. Any tips or suggestions? I'm sure I've missed something stupid. > > Thanks muchly. > > Shawn > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
