Dapper networking appears to be totally hosed

matthew nicholson sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com
Thu Feb 2 14:08:06 UTC 2006


i already had all the correct nameserver information in my resolv.conf.
i have a static ip address (normally) i tried to grab one via dhcp, but
no dice. everything with the exact same conf works fine in my breezy
partition. 
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 21:51 -0800, Tod Merley wrote:
>         
>         Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:55:12 -0500
>         From: matthew nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com>
>         Subject: Re: Dapper networking appears to be totally hosed
>         To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
>         <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>         Message-ID: <1138856112.8357.1.camel at localhost.localdomain>
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>         
>         after upgrading earlier i have issues too. i can get to my
>         router via ip 
>         (both ping and http) but cannot resolve names etc further.
>         On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 08:25 -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>         > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:36:46PM -0800, Tod Merley wrote:
>         > > And from the internet:
>         http://www.aboutdebian.com/network.htm
>         > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryNetworking?highlight=%
>         28CategoryNetworking%29
>         >
>         > Just to clarify: I'm well past the stage where I need help
>         > figuring out what my ESSID is, what my IP is, etc. :-) I'm
>         > using dhclient to get a DHCP lease, and I was connected via
>         > wired Ethernet. iwconfig and ifconfig do all the things you 
>         > mentioned, and I have checked them repeatedly.
>         >
>         --
>         matthew nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com>
>         sjoeboo.com
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Look at "/etc/resolv.conf".   If you see a your modem address (as
> nameserver) and another as well then comment out the modem address
> (example follows):
> 
> tod at tod:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> search domain.actdsltmp
> nameserver 192.168.0.1
> nameserver 205.175.3.65
> tod at tod:~$ sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf
> Password:
> Sorry, try again.
> Password:
> tod at tod:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> search domain.actdsltmp
> # nameserver 192.168.0.1
> nameserver 205.175.3.65
> tod at tod:~$
>  
> Please let me know if this helps!!!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tod
-- 
matthew nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com>
sjoeboo.com
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