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On Monday 22 October 2001 10:13, Paul Schwebel opined on the topic: Re:
[newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga continues
> Dave,
>
> Thanks for the clarification on my questions.
> Earthlink/Mindspring has 3 nameservers for their
> Mindspring customers (of which I am one). They are:
> 207.69.188.185
> 207.69.188.186
> 207.69.188.187
>
> I use the first two in my resolv.conf files and in the
> rp-pppoe setup. I can ping these numbers. Also, I
> can't seem to connect with their email servers,
> pop.mindspring.com and smtp.mindspring.com, so I'm not
> sure this is strictly a DNS problem, unless DNS is
> also required to resolve these names. Hmm, now that I
> think about it, I guess DNS must be involved.
Yes, you do need DNS to resolve those, too ;-)
> Is there a simple 'enable DNS' checkbox that I've
> missed?
No, Linux should try to use DNS by default, as long as you have the IP
addresses in your resolv.conf.
You will need bind-utils installed. Do this in an xterm:
rpm -qa|grep bind
and see if you get a bind-utils package. If not, you will need to install
it. If you know what bind is (a full DNS server), then you may guess that
bind-utils is just a set of tools for domain name resolution and other
information gathering.
> Now, I used to have a SuSE distribution (7.1), but I
> switched to Mandrake because of what appeared to be a
> more user friendly wrapper around the OS. I was able
> to connect with SuSE on the box, and I can connect
> under Win, so I'm not having a hardware issue.
I have only used SUSe once, and it was a 6.x version. Back then (a couple
of years ago), it seemed pretty good, but I ended up switching to Caldera,
and then switching to Mandrake at the suggestion of a friend.
Dave
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