RESOLVED
Hallelujah! Thanks to everyone for all the help.
Here's what I did:
mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf2 (it was a symlink to
/tmp/resolv.conf, which didn't exist???)
touch /etc/resolv.conf
I rebooted cause I'm a whimp, but I suppose you could ifdown eth0;
ifup eth0 or stop and start the dhcp client daemon.
Mario
>>hmm. yeah.. you should have something like
>>
>>/etc/resolv.conf
>>nameserver 65.32.1.70
>
>
>I see, so why isn't it populating? Is /etc/resolv.conf supposed to
>be a symlink to /tmp/resolv.conf or should it be a normal file? I
>have no idea how this got messed up. I'll let you all know my
>results later today. Thanks -ML
>
>>
>>the dhclient usually fills this value in for you..
>>
>>On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Mario Lombardo wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>--
>>"Without documentation you can never know what the code was meant to do,
>>only what it does"
>> -- Rik van Riel (#kernelnewbies)
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