Re: resolv.conf

[Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:58:31PM +0200, Timo Kamph wrote:
> I had a little trouble installing my ethernet cards drivers. Now the
> interface is up and works fine.
> But there is a problem with DNS. /etc/resolv.conf was missing, so i created
> one, containing a single line:
> 
> nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> where the xxx stuff is the nameservers ip address.
> But it won't work. Even not after a reboot.
> 
> Any ideas?

Can you ping the name server?  If you can, then make sure that
/etc/host.conf contains something like:

order hosts, bind

You could also try using host to query the name server, and seeing if
you get a response.

Let us know what happens.

Antony

PS Rebooting is generally unnecessary in Linux.