Your on the right track with /etc/resolv.conf. No, you don't need Bind
(named) running. The resolver routines will check for nameservers in
the /etc/resolv.conf file. The records should be in the form:
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
search isp.domain.name
Processes cache the resolv.conf configuration for their life so start a
new app when you check. Did you check the permissions on the
resolv.conf file (644)? I presume you have already checked that you can
ping addresses.
-Robert
Electric Monk wrote:
>
> OK, after going through /proc/pci, I found out that
> the card is actually an NE200-PCI card (so much for
> advertising!), and I installed the appropriate driver,
> and the network interface seems to work now.
>
> However, now I have an entirely different problem: I
> can't resolve hostnames to addresses. Debian also
> apparently does NOT install nslookup in its base
> package, so I'm going to have to dig that up off the
> CD. /etc/resolv.conf wasn't already present, so I
> created it using 'man resolv.conf' as my guide, with
> both of my ISP's DNS servers' addresses entered, but I
> am still unable to resolve names. Do I need to be
> running BIND in order to resolve names?
>
> --Kevin Fogleman
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