On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 21:42 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > Is there a host file that I could input google's DNS servers? What is > this resolv.conf?
/etc/hosts Can have domain names, hostnames, and their associated numerical IP addresses put into it. You wouldn't put DNS server addresses into it, but if you knew the IPs for the mirrors that weren't working you could put them in it. /etc/resolv.conf Will hold the DNS server addresses in it that you're currently using, and you can manually edit it to something else (bearing in mind that something else will probably change what you put in there, at some stage). Your problem *may* not just be unable to resolve the addresses, but try it anyway. Your computer needs to have an IP address that can talk to things outside of its immediate network. If its address is 127.0.0.1 it can only talk to itself. If it's address starts with 169.254 it can only talk to other PCs on your LAN with similar addresses. In those cases, either you need to manually configure your network to use something else, or figure out why something like your modem/router's DHCP server is not configuring it for you. If your computer is directly connected to the internet, it would have a public IP address. If it's behind a router, as most are these days, it'll have an address starting with something like 192.168. or 10.0.0 (using the same scheme that the router, and everything else on your LAN uses). Your computer will also need a gateway address, that's the address it goes through to get to the outside world, the address of your modem/router. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.88.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 7 15:41:52 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
