Rich, Is this the laptop with a physical network switch?
Ken On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 11:44 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
