On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 07:10, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> John Clay wrote:
> > Hi Ronan;
> >
> > $ ping www.google.com
> > ping: unknown host www.google.com
> >
> > John
> >
>
> Now you know for certain that Konqueror is not part of the problem. Can
> you send the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file? I think that the
> way your dhcp client is supposed to set the DNS server info is by
> updating /etc/resolv.conf (setting the dhcp-acquired DNS server
> addresses into /etc/resolv.conf).
>
> In the past, I have worked with dhcp clients that worked in this way; I
> am not aware of any other mechanism for a dhcp client to setup your DNS.
>
> --ronan
>
>
>
YOU are the best. Thanks for jiggling my mind. It is as you suspected.
/etc/resolv.conf contained no nameserver entries, only had "search
localdomain" entry.
Thanks Much
John
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