On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:50:54PM -0500, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes when I point to any website in Netscape while running Gnome on > Mandrake Linux 8.1, I get the following message: > _______________________________________________ > Warning: the host www.whatever.com is unknown > > This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable > > Perhaps there is a problem with your name server? > If your site must use a non-root name server, you will > need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to > point at the appropriate name server. It may (or may > not) be necessary to set this variable, or the host > SOCKS host preference, to the IP address of the host > in question rather than its name. > > Consult your system administrator. > ________________________________________________ > > The question is, where is this $SOCKS_NS environment > variable which I need to set? > > And yes, Thanks a ton to all those who helped me with > the 'Mailbox vulnerable' problem. > > Regards, > > Farhan. > ---end quoted text---
Please check out your '/etc/resolv.conf'. Besides your localhost, you should have appropriate entries for the ISP that you connect to. Preferentially, put both the Primary and secondary numbers. In my case, for VSNL it is something like this: search localhost domain localhost nameserver 127.0.0.1 search nde.vsnl.net.in domain nde.vsnl.net.in nameserver 202.54.15.75 nameserver 202.54.1.30 HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Get your copy of Linux Gazette LOST #059 #!/bin/bash ISSUE=61 #Note: Issue 61 was Jan 2001 change for month reqd wget -v -c "ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/lg-base.tar.gz";' wget -v -c "ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/lg-issue'$ISSUE'.tar.gz"' ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
