On 7 Jan, Hall Stevenson wrote: : * Jason Dawe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010107 19:32]: : > However, after completing the installation and rebooting I could not connect : > to any sites, nor could I ping any servers. For example if I do a 'ftp : > ftp.debian.org' it instantly tells me it is not found. (It takes no time at : > all; doesn't even seem to look) : : 'cause there's *no* network connection. If it was a DNS problem, it : would at least take a few seconds for the protocol to timeout. :
Not necessarily true: nujoma:/etc# mv resolv.conf not.resolv.conf nujoma:/etc# time ping socrates.berkeley.edu ping: unknown host socrates.berkeley.edu real 0m0.049s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.020s If there's no DNS server properly set up, it will time out nearly instantly. Cheers, Andy Perrin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
