On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, John Vannoy wrote:
> OK, I have my home network to the following point:
[snip]
> What do I have to do to allow loading a web page by the URL? I know it has
> something to do with DNS, and I know the problem is not Machine A because
> everything works fine when I boot Machine B to Win95.
You need to specify a nameserver for Linux to use. This can be done by
editing the file /etc/resolv.conf. It should have a line in it saying
nameserver <ip-of-preferred-nameserver>
Regards,
Pontus
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