Jose,
Thanks. Yes, I had rebooted. I still have to do some more playing around.
My knowledge in this whole area is just generally rather weak. I would have
presumed that the LinkSys actually provided the DNS server names once it got
them from Verizon, my ISP.
Currently I have all my machines (a whopping 4, including my laptop) set for
DHCP so creating a hosts file is somewhat problematic unless there are some
hosts semantics that I am not aware of.
If it becomes too painful I will supply static IPs to all but the laptop.
The laptop has to span 3 different environments and DHCP is required in 2
out the 3.
Cheers,
-rick
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie
> Subject: RE: [newbie] LAN settings - (was: Setting up NIC under 7.2)
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 3:43 AM
> To: Newbie
> Subject: RE: [newbie] LAN settings - (was: Setting up NIC under 7.2)
>
> Figured it out after a bit. Either the mainboard has a bad PCI slot or
> the NIC was not seated properly. More likely the latter. I moved it to
> another slot and that made it happy. I will try moving it back to the
> original slot at some point in future.
>
> On to the next questions.
>
> The network here consists of a DSL modem into a LinkSys Router/Switch. I
> set eth0 up for DHCP and that seems to work, but I had to set the DNS
> manually. Is this normal?
> [|JMS> ]
>
> Have you rebooted?
>
> If you configured your eth0 card for dhcp address allocation, you might
> have to reboot to get DNS info from your ISP.
>
> Some ISP's DHCP servers may also not be configured to provide this
> information to your machine.
>
> Watch your machine's hostname after a reboot. If it changes to something
> you did not type in, your ISP is providing info...
>
> ---
>
>
> My reason for asking is that my Win2K box is set up for DHCP and as part
> of getting its address it also gets the gateway and DNS addresses as well.
> So I did an ipconfig/all on the Win2K box as a quick and dirty way to
> print out the DNS servers.
>
> [|JMS> ] See above
>
> ----
>
> Is it necessary to have a fully qualified domain when the machine is
> behind a router and part of a private network? I can resolve names "out
> there" on the other side of the router, but my Linux box can't resolve the
> name of my Win2K box and they are both on the same subnet.
>
> [|JMS> ]
>
> Yes and no.
>
> Your Linux machine has to "know" about machines on your private lan. How
> you go about this is up to you. /etc/hosts is the quick and dirty way for
> small LANs. DNS/BIND with the DHCP update script is much more elegant.
>
> Until you set up one or the other, Linux will not know about your other
> machines. For that matter Windows doesn't either.
>
> Remember your ISP's DNS can't "see" your private LAN, so Linux has no way
> of obtaining HOST information unless you set something up.
>
>
> [|JMS> ] -JMS
>
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