I just ran 'dnsquery -h help.rr.com' and it works fine; it resolves
all kinds of names to numbers, but when I try to ping help.rr.com or
'lynx www.yahoo.com' or ''lynx help.rr.com', it doesn't resolve.
Also, I don't see any entries in /etc/resolv.conf Should there be?
Mario
>I'm getting an IP address from my router just fine on my other
>machines. Win98SE, MacOS9, and Linux variants. It's just this one
>sparc I've set up with Debian 2.2r5 from the CD ISOs. I don't know
>what could be broken.
>
>Mario
>
>>If you've got roadrunner at home, you've got DHCP unless you are paying not
>>to. If pump is failing every time, check to see if the modem's working,
>>barring that, you're pretty much on your own as far as TW's concerned. I
>>don't usually use pump; I use the dhcp from the ISC (internet software
>>consortium). It works pretty well.
>>
>>Chances are if you can't get an IP, it's either the modem, the line, or the
>>NIC. Most modern distros don't screw up the network setup so bad that you
>>can't at least get an IP, but it's possible. If this a the machine that's
>>dual booting windows, that's probably the problem ;)
>>
>> Glen
>>
>>
>>On Friday 29 March 2002 14:01, you wrote:
>>> I'm running 'pump' at the command prompt as root.
>>> It says "Operation failed." and my eth0 doesn't get an IP. I don't
>>> know if I was statically addressed earlier or not, but I wasn't able
>>> to resolve names, so I decided to investigate pump, and that's how I
>>> saw this error upon running it.
>>>
>>> Second question: Is this supposed to be this way?
>>> /etc/resolv.conf -> ../tmp/resolv.conf
>>>
>>> I don't see a /tmp/resolv.conf anyway.
>>>
>>> Mario
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