On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 11:08 AM, J. Craig Woods wrote: > You ought to run a "dig" command to see if name server info is right. > You ought to run "netstat -rn" to see if your routing table is right. > You ought to run a "ifconfig -a" to see if mask is right..... > > etc....etc....etc.... > > j. c. woods, > UNIX SA > > > At 06:09 PM 12/10/2001 +1100, Andrew George wrote: > >> > And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: >> > >> > search earthlink.net >> > nameserver 207.217.126.82 >> > nameserver 207.217.77.81 >> > nameserver 207.217.120.83 >> > >> > The original problem is this. When the box is set to use DHCP, it can >> > resolve domains and surf the web just fine. When I manually assign >> it an >> > IP and DNS servers it can't. It used to work just fine manually but >> > sometime this week it just stopped working for some reason. The >> manual >> > IP I use for this box is 192.168.0.2. I have already put my other >> comps >> > on this IP and they can use it just fine. >> > >> >> OK >> Sounds to me like its picking some info up off dhcp that is wrong in >> the >> static set-up >> try running ifconfig as both static connection and dhcp and see what >> the >> differences are >> >> Andrew
All of that info is correct. It was working before, and the other machines on my network are still working fine using the same settings. I've had this ISP for years and this info has never changed. ------------------------------------------------------ Computers come in two styles - prototype and obsolete! ------------------------------------------------------
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