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[Igor Gueths]

Hi Toby. Thanks for the help I got it to work! The problem was that I had the wrong filename. I had resolv.conf instead of resolve.conf. Thanks again! 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Toby Fisher <toby_fisher at bigfoot.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:36 AM
Subject: Re: question


> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Hi. Sorry about all the posts, but I'm updating information as I
> > figure things out. If anyone wants me to change the thread, please let
> > me know. I got ifup to configure my linksys card, and I get an Ip
> > address. However, it diesn't seem that its using tha gateway
> > 192.168.0.1 specified in /etc/network/interfaces. Also, it doesn't
> > seem to be using the nameserver in /etc/resolve.conf. In fact, Lynx
> > can't resolve google.com because of this. I also restarted the inetd
> > and init processes. Am I missing something here as far as
> > configuration goes? Thanks in advance!
> 
> Hmmm,
> Well, first of all, I assume you are using a Redhat system.  I don't know
> a lot about those as I use Slackware here, but you need to ensure that
> somewheere in your startup scripts is a line to bring up the interface
> using ifconfigensuring that it either specifies the ip address of your
> gateway, or references a shell variable which has been previously defined
> in the script.  Also, although I have not found any documentary support
> for this, I have found, for some reason, that ip addresses in the
> 192.168.0 subnet seem to present problems, i.e. they do not seem to be
> recognised in certain circumstances.  This may not be correct, and is
> merely anecdotal on my part, but just in case, I always use 192.168.1.0/24
> network instead, just to be safe.
> 
> In addition, I believe I can shed some light on your dns problem.  The
> file /etc/resolve.conf is not what you need, note the spelling.  The file
> is in /etc but is r e s o l v dot c o n f, not r e s o l v e dot c o n f.
> 
> HTH
> 
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