Bascule,
I use Earthlink as my ISP, and Earthlink provides automatic DNS for the
dialup connection. I have never configured DNS on either the Mandrake or the
98 PC's. Is there a way I can find out what DNS servers the Mandrake PC is
using, so that I can plug those servers into the 98 PC?
Thank you....
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Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 12:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] DNS issue?
not sure brian, but in win you have to set the box to be on a lan and tell
it
to use dns, i set my win98 box to have the same two dns server entries for
my
isp as i gave the mandrake box, iirc the place to do this is control
panel>network>tcp/ip-network adapter>properties, on the dns tab choose
enable
and fill in the fields, in the gateway tab i have put the address of my
mandrake box as that is the gateway to the net (this might not be necessary
but it works for me!)
bascule
On Saturday 25 November 2000 5:10 pm, you wrote:
>
>
> When I try to use the web, or ping anything by name, it doesn't work. It
> seems as though the name resolution isn't working on the 98 PC. The DNS is
> disabled, so I am assuming it is using the Mandrake computer to get its
> name resolution from.
>
> Problem is, I don't know how to check the Mandrake server to see where it
> is getting its name resolution from. I checked the /etc/nsswitch.conf
file,
> and the order are files dns nis nisplus.
>
> I am able to access everything fine from the Mandrake computer, so I
> believe name resolution on it is fine. I just don't think it is passing
> name resolution back and forth between Mandrake and 98. If Mandrake is
> getting its DNS settings (if it isn't getting them from somewhere else)
> from the ISP when I dial in, where is it configured to tell it to use the
> DNS from the ISP, and how do I configure it to pass the DNS resolution
back
> to the 98 PC?
>
> Thanks,
> brian
