On Tuesday 29 June 2004 18:32, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > No luck whois not installed. Isnt that for only local use. That is it > > would tell me who was logged on to my domaine, well I know that its > > me. I did find a whois web site but didnt get any results since I dont > > know what my ISP's name is unless its 'sbcglobal.net' which it probably > > is. But that doesnt help since first I have to go to my dsl modem and > > it takes a long time to time out. If I remove everything from > > '/etc/resolv.conf' It just gets replaced as is. I dont understand > > what I'm doing? > > > whois is for looking up information on domains. who is for seeing who > is logged on your local machine. > > As far as resolv.conf, if you are running DCHD, then the file should get > rebuilt with the information from your DSL modem. But it is possible > that you have overridden this. Could you post the contence of > /etc/sysconfig/networks, and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0? > (Also ifcfg-eth1 if you have one.) There are some logs in /var/logs > that may help as well, but I don't remember exactly where Mandrake puts > things, and you don't want to post /var/log/messages! > Should I remove dhcp, since this is a single user desktop machine I have no use for networking unless necessary for other things. There is no eth1.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/networks cat: /etc/sysconfig/networks: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="" NEEDHOSTNAME=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ -- Regards; Hoyt
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