I followed your instructions. But no dice. I'm getting the idea that I don't
have access to dns as a non-root user. The reason I think this is that I used
a gnutella client just to check, and that works...it only uses ip addresses to
do its thing. So, what could prevent a normal user from getting dns
information?
Russell
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:50:10 -0500 Scott Piper <piper@ij.net> wrote:
> did you set up networking in
> /etc/network/interfaces to use dhcp, as in
>
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> (/etc/init.d/networking restart will make the
> changes without having to
> reboot if you change something in there)
>
> scott
>
>
> rhires@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> >Hey Everyone,
> >
> >I've got a funny problem: I switched from
> Earthlink's DSL which uses PPPoE, to
> >Verizon, which doesn't use anything but dhcp.
> The fun part is that I can only
> >access the internet as root, and not as a
> normal user. Anybody got a thought
> >on what might be causing this, or how I can
> fix it?
> >
> >TIA...
> >
> >Russell
> >
>
>
>
>
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