Ok, I have just now tried to disable DNS considering you say that my ISP is assigning DNS as connection is made. Still no luck. I can ping my Internet server at 192.168.0.118 and I get positive results. However when I ping www.yahoo.com I get; ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com which leads me to believe DNS is not working only on my P.C. using Mandrake.
Some background history here, in the past I have used Sygate Internet sharing software on a P200 with Win98se2 for our Internet server. With this sharing software the Windows clients on the LAN use DHCP to obtain an IP from the server, and I set the gateway IP to 192.168.0.118 (second nic's IP in server aka - eth1) and I disable DNS on clients running Windows. With this same server using Sygate, before I used to use RH7.1 and I had to use DHCP, gateway set to 192.168.0.118 AND DNS enabled with DNS IP#1 192.168.0.118 DNS IP#2 24.31.3.8 DNS IP#3 24.31.3.9 in order to connect to the net with DNS services. Within the past year, I changed our Internet server to use LRP (Linux Router Project) and basically kept the Windows clients settings the same - I left their gateway IP number intack just incase LRP went goofy (dust on the floppy usually was the culprit to bring down the LRP Internet server). During this time I changed from RH to Mandrake and only had to enable DHCP in order to access the net. I did not have to use DNS because the LRP server has a package called dnscache which takes care of that. This past week, the LRP software wasn't able to obtain an IP from our ISP so I had to boot the server into Windows to satisfy the clients on the LAN until I can figure out what is wrong with it. All the Windows clients can connect to the web now, however my P.C. running Mandrake can only send and receive email (because I use IP numbers for my SMTP and POP settings). This all leads me to believe that DNS is not functioning only on my P.C. running Mandrake 8.2 Is there something I am missing here? Did I get "lucky" before with a misconfigured RH system? Your reply et, "your ISP is assigning DNS as connection is made, this should be correct." What are you referring to as being correct? If our ISP is assigning DNS as connection is made, how come the Windows clients can connect to the web and are able to utilize DNS in some manner, but Mandrake cannot? BTW, our account with our ISP does not include a home network. Our account is for only one computer, and that is all they provide support for. If there is any other info I need to provide (newbie here, not too sure!) let me know and I will send it along. Thanks for your help. Steve On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:03:54 -0400 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > your ISP is assigning DNS as connection is made, this should be correct. > > > On Tuesday 18 June 2002 09:21 pm, you wrote: > > I am attempting to add a couple DNS IP's to /etc/resolv.conf in this > > format; > > > > nameserver 24.31.3.8 > > nameserver 24.31.3.9 > > > > however, everytime I do this the file is overwritten immediatly by > > "something" else. I have even tried to add the IP's directly into > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts (various files with DNS entries in them) > > with no luck. > > > > The original contents of /etc/resolv.conf are; > > > > nameserver 192.168.0.118 > > > > which is the gateway IP of our Internet server on our home LAN. > > > > DNS is enabled thru linuxconf and yes I even tried adding the new IP's > > there and they are removed immediatly also by some other process. I have > > checked and I do not have pump installed so that isn't the culprit. I also > > do not have dhclient installed (those were the two suggestions I found on > > the web which may be interferring with /etc/resolv.conf) > > > > I am using Mandrake 8.2 on a Dell Optiplex P500 w/256 RAM > > with a 3com nic. Any other info I should provide? > > > > Thanks in advance for any help and or advise. > > Steve > >
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