On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 09:56 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
> > To get DNS to work without NWAM, populate your /etc/resolv.conf with
> > appropriate values, 
> 
> Here's what it contains:
> 
> # cat /etc/resolv.conf 
> domain luannocracy.com
> # nameserver 192.168.188.1
> nameserver 207.172.3.8
> nameserver 207.172.3.9
> nameserver 207.172.3.10
> nameserver 207.172.3.11

Looks good.

> 
> Interestingly, I can get it to succeed at doing nslookup, host, or dig
> if I uncomment the first nameserver, which is my local router that
> happens to forward to the nameservers shown in that list.  However,
> traceroute fails without showing a single hop, and browsing the web is
> hopeless.  I /can/ access addresses on my local subnet.

That says to me that the problem isn't naming, but routing; you probably
don't have a default route to get off of your local subnet.  What does
"netstat -rn" say about the routes you have in your forwarding table?

> > then modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to have the following
> > for the "hosts" and "ipnodes" lines:
> >
> > hosts:      files dns
> > ipnodes:    files dns
> 
> That was already the case, with a comment saying it was done by DHCP.
> So I'm still stuck :-(
> 
> Anything else I can try?

Yes, add a static default route using your local router as the next hop.
You can make that persistent by uttering:

route -p add default <next-hop>

-Seb


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