On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:27:23AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > >On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:11:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > >> >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> >> Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's > >> >> and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response. > >> > > >> >is that by ip address or by name? > >> > >> > >> Well it should be clear from my mail below that I pinged their ip > >> addresses, isn't it? > > > >you mean above? Making an assumption about what people are doing can > >lead you down the wrong road. I don't need to tell you how many people > >would claim to be pinging ip addresses when they're not. :-P > > Yep I meant that above line. Ip address means an "ip address" after > all not hostname. And yes may be n00bs don't make a difference > between the two. I'm no expert at all but not a n00b atleast. not implying that you're a noob, just covering the bases. :) > > >> BTW, I saw the problem. As soon as I connect, pppoeconf sets the > >> nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf ... after a few seconds or in a min > >> uet, those ip addresses vanish and get replaced by the ip 192.168.0.1. > > > >as someone else said, if you've got 'zeroconf' (i think, not > >resolvconf) that could be part of the problem. > > I don't have either. > > dhcp is installed and I installed pump too since the dhcp client I saw > at times unable to get any ip at boot. At other times it got without > any error message. do are you running two dhcp clients? that could cause problems for sure. A
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