Re: Trouble Setting Up DSL
On 7 Jan, Hall Stevenson wrote:
: * Jason Dawe (jason@st-johns.crosswinds.net) [010107 19:32]:
: > However, after completing the installation and rebooting I could not connect
: > to any sites, nor could I ping any servers. For example if I do a 'ftp
: > ftp.debian.org' it instantly tells me it is not found. (It takes no time at
: > all; doesn't even seem to look)
:
: 'cause there's *no* network connection. If it was a DNS problem, it
: would at least take a few seconds for the protocol to timeout.
:
Not necessarily true:
nujoma:/etc# mv resolv.conf not.resolv.conf
nujoma:/etc# time ping socrates.berkeley.edu
ping: unknown host socrates.berkeley.edu
real 0m0.049s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.020s
If there's no DNS server properly set up, it will time out nearly
instantly.
Cheers,
Andy Perrin
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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
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