At 25 July, 2003 Asgodom Woldu wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Farmer) wrote: > >At 25 July, 2003 Asgodom Woldu wrote: > >> However, when I replaced this card with the Belkin F5D5000, i was able > >> to ping my other PC, and vice versa. i wasn't able to ping for example > >> 'www.yahoo.com', but if i used the actual ip address (216.109.125.79) > >> it works. This became important when i tried to use 'emerge sync', > >> where i get the error message: > >> 'starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage... > >> rsync: get addrinfo: rsync.gentoo.org 873: Temporary failure in name > >> resolution. > >> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c (83)' > >> > >> So, i used the 'emerge-webrsync' command instead. My question is, does > >> this accomplish the same objective, or do i need to find a solution to > >> the name resolution problem to finish the installation process? > > > >Yes, you'll need a working nameserver. > >Try these two public nameservers - put them into /etc/resolv.conf: > > 209.104.63.240 > > 209.104.63.241 > > Hi, > > I added the nameservers during the eth0 configuration process (using 'net-setup > eth0' and selecting the static IP option), and i was able to ping 'www.yahoo.com', > etc. However, 'emerge sync' still gives me the same error message, even after i > edited /etc/resolv.conf using nano. Here is the exact copy of what was in > /etc/resolv.conf > > nameserver 209.104.63.241 > nameserver 209.104.63.240 > > Is this how it should look?
Yes; that looks good to me. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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