Got it.
Those DNS addresses are dead. I did however look in the /etc/resolv.conf
file and see which DNS servers where being used temporarily by PPP, and then
set those as the DNS servers on the 98 box.
Thanks for the help everyone.
Brian
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 12:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] DNS issue?
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Brian P. Trotter wrote:
In case you are still having problems:
http://help.earthlink.net/techsupport/generic_settings/settings.html:
DNS1 207.217.126.81
DNS2 207.217.77.82 or 207.217.120.83
And I don't even use Earthlink ;)
Paul
>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....
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bascule
>Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 12:35 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>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
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