My home network has decided to stop resolving names today. Eg. If I ping google.com I get unknown host yet if I ping 64.233.167.99 I get responses. If I enter host google.com I get: ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
I have several computers connected to an SMC router which is connected to a Shaw cable modem. The computer I have using now is running Fedora core 3. While connected through the SMC Barricade router my /etc/resolv.conf is: ; generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! search cg.shawcable.net nameserver 192.168.2.1 If I browse to 192.168.2.1 on the status page, among other things I see: Primary DNS: 0.0.0.0 Secondary DNS: 0.0.0.0 If I connect my computer directly to the cable modem things are good, name resolution works and and my /etc/resolv.conf looks like: ; generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! search cg.shawcable.net nameserver 64.59.135.133 nameserver 64.59.135.135 To me it seems like the SMC router is not getting the DNS information correctly from the Shaw DHCP server. I phoned Shaw and they said it is a problem with my SMC router. I talked to SMC tech support and they got me to manually enter the DNS servers and then it works. I don't want to have to manually setup the DNS config but they offer no other solution. Does anyone know why the SMC router might have trouble receiving the DNS info? How can I trouble shoot this? Would using Ethereal to see what is happening be worthwhile? Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
