Re: ping hostnames problem
Am Mit, 2004-01-14 um 20.32 schrieb Manestro Oliveira:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Debian 3.0 r2 and trying to ping to hostnames. The problem is
> that I can only ping to IPs
So your DNS is borked.
> . I modified /etc/resolv.conf to include more DNS
> servers from my network, the archive is saved but when I reopen it the
> modification is not there.
That would be because dhclient alters resolv.conf to match the DHCP
severs DNS entry.
> Also, Iʼm using dhcp (client). After upgrading to
> dhcp3-client, I could make permanent changes in resolv.conf, but I still can
> only ping to IPs. How can it be solved, and why is that happening?
Looks like the DHCP-configured DNS is wrong?
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