Re: The continuing saga of slow internet (was DNS problem)

From: hachiroku (Trueno_at_ae86.gts)
Date: 04/21/05 

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:02:52 GMT

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:33:54 +0100, anc wrote:

> hachiroku wrote:
>
>> I have now lost ALL Name Resolution. The only way I can get to my ISP's
>> News server is to use the IP address. I can't access anything that needs
>> DNS resoultion. I am running 9.2. As with 9.1 everything was going well
>> until I did the second YOU.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>
> So what is the output of
> cat /etc/resolv.conf ?
>
> Do you see 2 nameservers in there? Can you ping the nameservers?
> (Sometimes this does not work as an ISP may block the ping command.)

Thanks, folks!

I have rehearsal tonight, and a gig tomorrow, but I will try these next
time I get home!

In answer to one question, etc/resolve.conf DOES point to my router, with
the correct IP. Pinging with IP works on anything, tracert only works with
IP; anything that needs Name Resolution bombs.

Will try thes suggestions.

Oh, one little aside; I use Mozilla. I was perusing a NG on the news
server, and it had a link to a web site. I clicked the link. Konquerer
fired up and went to the web site. I was able to browse the web for about
20 minutes, and then started getting "Unable to resolve host name" errors
again.

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