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Maskkkk
09-15-2003, 01:51 PM
My linux box has been acting screwy ever since I set it up for a static IP address. I'm now using it setup under DHCP with my router. The machine no longer seems to be able to resolve DNS addresses. For instance if I try to open www.yahoo.com in any of the browsers in my linux box it doesn't seem to be able to load the page. However if I type the ip for www.yahoo.com (216.109.118.69) it brings it up just fine.

I messed around with neat when I was setting up the static ip and again when I setup the dynamic again, so I must have not set something back right.

What can I do here?
ev8r
09-15-2003, 02:23 PM
did you put the entries for your dns servers in resolve.conf?
ev8r
09-15-2003, 02:24 PM
oops resolv.conf
Maskkkk
09-15-2003, 03:29 PM
I just figured out that there's a little checkbox there that says configure my DNS setting automatically, or something like that, see this is why I don't just wanna be a dumb windows user anymore. Thanks!
DMR
09-16-2003, 11:25 PM
Originally posted by Maskkkk
I just figured out that there's a little checkbox there that says configure my DNS setting automatically, or something like that... Right. That tells your system to get its DNS server IP addresses via DHCP. Alternately, you can hand-enter them into your /etc/resolv.conf file as ev8r said, although some DHCP clients are configured to overwrite the entries in resolv.conf.