Re: [UUG/MLUG] MU network

[Keith Kleiner <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Good assessment Steve.  I suspect this will solve Jeff's problem.

One more hint: I use a command called "linuxconf" to configure networking
and other stuff sometimes.  It has a networking section that allows you to
specify all kinds of important parameters such as IP address.....
However, you probably won't need this program because I suspect Steve's
/etc/resolv.conf solution will take care of things.

...keith

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Steve Holdener wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Jeff Thomas wrote:
> 
> > I'm missing, because eth0 is already there and dhcp is selected.  When
> > Linux is booting, I see that it's connecting to dhcp (or whatever it
> > does...it says something about dhcp....done) , but if I try to run
> > Netscape or telnet or anything, it doesn't seem to think I'm connected. 
> 
> Okay, I'm a newbie myself, but have you tried connecting to a four-byte IP
> address?  For instance, http://128.206.2.252/ is the IBM "Internet
> Connection Server for AIX".  This is one of Mizzou's Domain Name Servers,
> something that *may* not be configured correctly in your system.  Check
> /etc/resolv.conf to see if you have any entries there.  If not, then your
> computer simply can't find "showme.missouri.edu" or whatever because it
> doesn't know where to go to get the IP address of that system.  My
> resolv.conf file is something like:
> 
> nameserver 128.206.2.252
> ...(two more DNS entries, I believe)...
> search missouri.edu
> 
> (sorry, my girlfriend left the pc running Windows, so that's what I'm in
> right now)
> The last line allows you to be lazy like me and just connect to
> "showme"--it resolves the rest.
> 
> I'm pretty much taking a shot in the dark here.  Paul Suda helped me with
> my PPP connection today, and this is one thing we had to look at.
> 
> -Steve Holdener
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> 
> "Oh, what a life a mess can be."
>                      -Jay Farrar
>