It was Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:05:26 +0800 when Lisa Evans wrote: You have to set up your /etc/resolv.conf In it you put: search <isp-name> name-server <ip address1> name-server <ip address2> And then you should be fine. Paul >I've had this problem a couple of times in the past week, where nothing on my >Mandrake 8.0 system can look up the IP addresses of domains via DNS lookup. >Browsers can't resolve hosts, fetchmail gives a 'canonical DNS error', ping >can't find hosts, etc. (This is while I am connected to my ISP via a ppp >connection). The problem is at my end, because when I reboot into Windows >2000 I don't have the same problem. If I look up the IP addresses some other >way and type them in directly into my browser, to fetchmail, etc. everything >works fine. > >The first time it happened I couldn't solve it and I reinstalled Mandrake >(lame solution number 1). Everything worked fine for a few days, but today >the problem came back. I definitely have to find out why this is happening >and fix it, because I don't want to reinstall again. > >Can anyone help? > >Lisa Evans > > -- Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft, referred to LINUX as a cancer. Unsurprisingly, that's incorrect; LINUX was released on August 25th, 1991 and is therefore a Virgo. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.3
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