[nmglug] Re:lost xserver upon upgrade is OK now, no network tho!

[Brian O'Keefe]

On Thursday 27 April 2006 1:01 am, Sam Noble wrote:
Thanks everyone. This is a bit for me to handle as I am not that profficient 
in this sort of thing, always relying on GUI's mostly but I'm willing!
I checked via my router ( D-Link) and found WAN info:
DNS -198.59.109.7
          206.165.6.11
Not to sound stupid but my /etc/resolc.conf file does not have the 
"nameserver" now, just the address 192.168.0.1. I just want to be sure that 
when I edit the file I would add exactly this:

nameserver 198.59.109.7
nameserver 206.165.6.11

or do I need the brackets too?

Also Jason, I cannot access any ip in Linux right now. I'm writing this from 
my OS X partition so I need to reboot into Linux to try these suggestions but 
would like the clarification I requested above first to save headaches.
PS-I'm not with Qwest but rather Cybermesa
Again-a multitude of thanks!!

Brian

> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 17:52 -0600, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> > brianokeefe at ubuntu:~$ pico /etc/resolv.conf
> >
> > file has: 192.168.01
>
> Brian it looks like Jason and chochoms have diagnosed this for you.
> If you want to make sure that the problem is DNS you could try putting a
> few known good IP's in a web browser and seeing if that works.
> http://65.19.10.22/
> http://64.233.167.104/
> http://216.93.164.69/
> http://64.58.141.4/
>
> Assuming that works the problem, my favorite solution is adding a
> prepend line to the dhclient config, so that everytime you pull a new
> dhcp lease, the top nameserver is the one you set and the ones sent via
> dhcp are added as secondary and tertiary. (Been trying to use tertiary
> in conversation for a year now, finally!)
>
> Pick your favorite DNS server, and then edit the file dhcpd.conf:
>
> $ sudo vi /etc/dhcp3/dhclient
>
> and add/edit the line:
> #prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
>
> replacing 127.0.0.1 with your favorite DNS server and removing the
> leading hash.
>
> So if you want to use the qwest nameservers:
>
> prepend domain-name-servers 205.171.3.65;
> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
>         domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name,
>         netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope;
>
> Good luck.
> sam
>
>
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