Re: Now posting from Windows...

From: hachiroku (Trueno_at_ae86.gts)
Date: 04/14/05 

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:54:20 GMT

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:22:44 -0700, Perfect Reign wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:32:18 +0000, Hachiroku donned fireproof underwear
> and scratched on the wall:
>
>
>>
>> I have set that. I have set everything. I tried to do a YOU tonight, most
>> of the attempts ended with: Unable to resolve host name.
>>
>> Which brings me all the way back to my original question:L how can I
>> resolve DNS in Suse? This seems to be the problem. Most of the errors I
>> get have something to do with resolving host names.
>>
>> It is beyond irritating, beyond frustrating. I finally gave up and booted
>> to Windows...AGAIN!!!!!! XP may be buggy, but it WORKS!!!!!
>>
>> More than I can say for my SuSE set-up lately.
>
> Okay, you're using DSL, right? Static or dynamic IP? What happens when
> you ping yourself? By IP? By hostname?

1. DHCP

2. Pinging produces instantaneous response by IP, never tried host name.

Running the diagnostics on the DSL routerproduces the following results:
Pinging a remote server works fairly rapidly. Doing a traceroute resluts
in a fast response from the nearest downstream (ISP) server. Trying to get
OUT of the ISP server and hop times out.

Using KInternet, there is no DNS server listed until I do a refresh, then
the DNS server ip appears.

>
> I think about it this way - my system knows nothing of my DSL. All it
> knows is I have an IP/Gateway/DNS entries and an ehternet card running
> NetBeui - oops, I mean, TCP/IP.

Hmm...when I loaded SUSE it saw the DSL router, but didn't configure it. I
had to do that manually, but is worked, and worked faster then Windows!
The more use it gets, the slower it goes.

>
> Also, are you sure you're using the same DNS as you are in WinXP?

Yep. What I have to do is boot Windows first. Once I boot into Windows and
run for a little while (check E-Mail, etc), shut down and then reboot
Linux, performance is great. The next time I boot right into Linux is a
crap shoot, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't...