[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> For reasons I don't understand, DNS abruptly quit working on my Mandrake 7.2
> box. It was working earlier today, then I was trying to configure Samba and
> it seemed to quit sometime around then. I don't believe I did anything
> related to DNS, but it quit working.
>
> I can ping by IP address all day, but if I attempt to ping by name it fails
> unless static resolution is specified in my /etc/hosts. I'm reasonably
> certain that the DNS servers are fine (both of them) because my windows
> machines resolve just fine using the same DNS servers.
>
> I looked in ummm, Drakconf I think it's called and under the name resolution
> section it confirmed I was usings "hosts, dns". Reboots haven't seemed to
> help.
>
> I don't know where to start with this, any help is appreciated! Needless to
> say, I'm kind of stuck until I get it working (in fact, I'm writing this
> email from Windows :-( )
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Why not check your /etc/resolv.conf
and see if anything *funky* has happened there.
Mike
--
"Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and
dreadful idolatry took place there."
--Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century
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