Re: dns

[Crispin Wellington <crispin@iinet.net.au>]

On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:23, Alexey wrote:
> There is a dnsutils package in Debian. Is contains some utilities.
> Is it a Debian-specific software?
> 
> I can connect to the provider, run pppd. There appears resolv.conf with
> "nameserver..." lines. I can ping those servers, and it's possible to
> browse www pages like this: "http://194.180.244.2/index.htm";.
> How to enable domain names? What program is responsible for that?
> 
> Thanks.
> Alexey.

Make sure something like

order hosts, bind 

appear in /etc/hosts.conf

Are those dns servers really dns servers?

try...

dig @dnsserverip www.google.com

where dnsserverip is the ip number in /etc/resolv.conf

Any response?

Crispin