Goh> I am a dial up user, pages in the web browser could not be
Goh> displayed. DNS error.
Goh> I have no problem connecting to my isp.
Goh> I change the proxy to ip address. I can surf the net, but cannot do
Goh> a domain ping. Error "unknown host"
I would check two things:
1. See what /etc/resolv.conf looks like. It should either have valid IP
addresses in the nameserver line, eg:
nameserver 199.249.165.175
or an all-zeroes line:
nameserver 0.0.0.0
The all-zeroes line tells the resolver library to contact the name
server running on the local machine. You can have multiple (up to
three I think) nameserver lines. If your ISP uses DHCP, your machine
will probably generate a new /etc/resolv.conf file each time you
connect.
2. If /etc/resolv.conf contains an all-zeroes line, check that named is
running and properly configured. For a dialup machine, you should be
running a caching only name server. It will get all information from
remote servers, then cache it to avoid further lookups over the slow
dialup connection. The configuration file is in /etc/named.conf.
I am not running named, but I have fast connections to the net. It
may be that named isn't started by default in Mandrake.
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