This morning the Sony Vaio laptop (model PCG-61A14L) refused to connect to the 'Net. This unit is configured to connect to the Belkin WAP; it's not on the LAN but connects to the 'Net via the WAP and router.
Checking everything related to "network not reachable" and restarting the internet daemon, checking ifconfig, iwconfig, and everything else I isolated the problem to /etc/resolv.conf (which I thought I had initially fixed). For some reason overnight /etc/resolv.conf was overwritten by the Belkin WAP and contained two lines: server Belkin WAP nameserver 192.168.2.1 Of course, that does nothing as the WAP has a LAN address of 192.168.55.200 and is connected to the router. So, I modified /etc/resolv.conf.working to the most recent nameserver IPs and copied it to /etc/resolv.conf. Then the laptop was able to connect externally. I put the command, cp /etc/resolve.conf.working /etc/resolv.conf, in Slackware's /etc/rc.d/rc.local as that's that last file processed when the system boots. It took a bit of trial-and-error tweaking the contents of rc.local, but that seems to have been the required fix. My question is what might have changed so the WAP modifies the DNS lookup on the laptop? The setup has been working for several years without any problems so this new issue, while apparently fixed, could do with an explanation to avoid future repeats or similar issues. Carpe holiday, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
