Networking Troubles

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 14 13:40:19 UTC 2007


On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:04:53AM +0200, SlackRat wrote:
>| >Sounds like a resolv.conf type problem, that's the first place I would
>| >check.  Can you post the contents of that file?  Also, is your network
>| >interface automatically configured (DHCP) or done manually?
>| 
>| resolv.conf:
>| nameserver 192.168.1.1
>| search gotdns.org
>| 
>| network/interfaces:
>| allow-hotplug eth1 
>| iface eth1 inet static 
>|   address 192.168.1.251 
>|   netmask 255.255.255.0 
>|   network 192.168.1.0 
>|   broadcast 192.168.1.255 
>|   gateway 192.168.1.1 
>|   # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed 
>|   dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 
>|   dns-search gotdns.org
>| 
>| >Lastly, with your postfix error, do you have any entries in the hosts file?
>| >I don't know much about postfix, but I've seen some mailers that won't use
>| >the hosts entries and run exclusively off DNS.
>| 
>| hosts:
>| 127.0.0.1 localhost
>| 192.168.1.251 yam.gotdns.org yam
>| 
>| Does any of that help?
>
>bash-3.1# cat /etc/resolv.conf
>search azurservers.com
>nameserver 212.27.53.252
>nameserver 212.27.54.252

I'm assuming that azurservers.com resolves to your network.  Where did
the nameserver lines come from?  Also, the preamble text says not to
edit resolv.conf - so how do I update it?
-- 

yours,

William

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