>>>>> "Ramasubramanian," == Ramasubramanian, Suresh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ramasubramanian,> Just add the DNS settings your ISP has given you
Ramasubramanian,> to linuxconf. As your ISP is eth, and they have
Ramasubramanian,> rather bad DNS, put any other DNS (say VSNL or
Ramasubramanian,> Satyam) in your /etc/resolv.conf
Ramasubramanian,> for example
Ramasubramanian,> search hd2.dot.net.in nameserver 202.54.30.2
Ramasubramanian,> nameserver 202.54.2.30
Ramasubramanian,> for vsnl hyderabad.
Ramasubramanian,> Save the file - that's all.
Uh, you left out one minor triviality... *Usually* , creating
a file inside /etc is permissible, only to root.
Therefore, your resolv.conf would have been created as being
owned by root and if you were to browse or surf the web as a normal
guy,.. hostnames are not gonna resolve... wherein they might by
*chance* try it out as root, and figure out that working as root
rules... which is wrong. Therefore, remember to chmod the file to 677
or whatever... make it universally readable ... the bottomline is,
(imho) to point people to the right documents and then leave it at
that.
<rant>
IMHO, if people are lazy enough to not bother themselves with
reading fine documentation, *I* will not bother myself trying to help
them out. Period.
</rant>
>> do i have to enter nameserver in /etc/resolve.conf?(its emty
>> now) and other details? how to automate this?
man resolv.conf
read the DNS-HOWTO... learn how to set up a caching-only
nameserver.. it helps ... and if you want to know why.. you have to
read the HOWTO... not ask me :)
G'day.
Ravi.
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