On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:54:04PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote "Elizabeth R. Chichester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Okay, I made a mistake. When I set up Debian on my home machine, I > was > # thinking in terms of a home network and so set up networking (through > # eth0). Unfortunately, I got ahead of myself and don't have everything > # set up. Specifically, I didn't have internet access handled. > # > # I did set up wvdial during the installation process. It works. I'm > # able to connect to the ISP. However, I can't get a DNS reading (i.e., > I > # can't ping anything successfully). The Gnome ppp dialer (where you > can > # specify the DNS addresses of the ISP) consistently gives an error > # message. > # > # Does anyone know (or can you direct me) to where I should "disable" > # networking so that I can get DNS through my ISP and otherwise get on > the > # 'net? Just a sample /etc/init.d/networking and /etc/resolv.conf (or > # other files) might do the trick. > > Sure :) /etc/resolv.conf should look something like: > order hosts,bind Mmm, don;t thinks so. Are you not mixing up hosts.conf with resolv.conf here ?
Cliff > nameserver ip.address.of.nameserver > nameserver ip.address.of.2nd-nameserver > > That'll probably fix things, but no guarantees ;) Consider this a > quick-fix :) > > David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay > Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
