Hi Brian, On Tuesday, 3 September 2019 18:44:50 UTC+3, Brian Tremaine wrote: > > I realize this is an old post but I'm hoping to get some answers ;) : > Problems pinging www.google.com > > I have a BeagleBone Black Rev C that is running the latest Debian. I've > been going through Derek Malloys book and video to get things started > (excellent material BTW), > > I am connected to a Win 10 laptop (64-bit) using the USB interface and am > using putty to connect through SSH. My problem is I cannot ping a DNS name, > i.e. www.google.com. pinging 8.8.8.8 does work. When I try to edit /etc/ > resolv.conf it says file does not exist. On the terminal the file > resolv.conf is shown in red; What does this mean? > > Can anybody help with hints on how to set up name server on BB Black Rev C > with Debian? >
On my BBB "/etc/resolv.conf" is a symbolic link which points to connman's /run/connman/resolv.conf: $ ls -lha /etc/resolv.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jun 30 13:12 /etc/resolv.conf -> /run/connman/resolv.conf In your case - if the terminal shows this file in red, it likely indicates a broken symlink, i.e. it points to file a file which doesn't exist. You can verify this by listing the file being pointed to and verifying its existance. In my case (my link is OK): $ ls -lha /run/connman/resolv.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85 Sep 4 08:24 /run/connman/resolv.conf As a temporary solution you can delete the broken symlink and add your own name server manually $ sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf $ sudo vim /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 8.8.8.8 As a permanent solution, try to figure out why connman hasn't managed to do its job :) -- Kind regards, Tarmo -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/44a6bba7-a973-43fd-a1b5-0cbee4abb6c9%40googlegroups.com.
