Re: [PLUG] networking question

["Kyle R. Burton" <kyle.burton@gmail.com>]

Eric,

I think to get DNS you need to list your office or ISP's nameservers
in /etc/resolv.conf:

  domain domain-name.com
  search domain-name.com
  nameserver <<primary-nameserver-ip-addr>
  nameserver <<secondary-nameserver-ip-addr>


HTH

Kyle

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
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> Randall,  Wow, thanks - that's exactly what I needed.
>
> I added a file, /etc/sysconfig/network/routes with a single line:
> default 10.10.10.1 - -
>
> After some fiddling with config (turning off NetworkManager) and exercising some
> network commands:
>   /sbin/rcnetwork
>   ifdown eth0
>   ifup eth0
>
> ...the default route is there!
>
> I can ping external addresses like 4.2.2.2 but I can't get DNS resolution:
>   ping www.google.com
>   ping: unknown host www.google.com
>
> I'm guessing that when I turned off NetworkManager it lost the DNS address,
> 10.10.10.1, that I had set in there.
>
> What else am I missing to get DNS?
>
> Thanks again,
> Eric
>
> On 10/13/2010 05:04 PM, Randall A Sindlinger wrote:
>> Yea!  A question I feel authoritative on! (as opposed to all those
>> darned Ubuntu questions :-)
>>
>>  # cat /etc/sysconfig/network/routes
>>  default 10.10.10.1 - -
>>
>> If you don't have that file, you don't have a default route.
>> Yeah, I agree - OpenSuSE should have put that in when you installed it.
>> <shrug/>
>>
>> HTH,
>> -Randall
>> --
>>   Randall Sindlinger
>>   Systems Programmer, CETS
>>   School of Engineering and Applied Science
>>   University of Pennsylvania
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:26:02PM -0400, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
>> Background:
>>
>> Installing OpenSuSE 11.3 guest in Virtualbox 3.2.8 on an Ubuntu 10.4 host.
>>
>> + Selected Gnome desktop
>> + Network configured in the setup process as:
>>      static IP  10.10.10.179
>>      netmask    255.255.255.0
>>      gateway    10.10.10.1
>> + Install appeared to complete without a hitch.
>>
>> Now, I can see any address in the 10.10.10.0 space but cannot see anything on
>> the Internet.  For example:
>>
>>    # ping www.google.com
>>    connect: Network is unreachable
>>
>> So, I look in more detail:
>>
>> # route
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
>> 10.10.10.0      *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
>> link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
>> loopback        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
>>
>> Where is the default route?
>>
>> I can fix it by entering:  route add default gw 10.10.10.1
>>
>> Apparently, the OpenSuSE installer just set up the static IP
>> and routing and somehow I missed how to tell it about a default route (right).
>>
>> I set NETWORKMANAGER="yes" in the config file, restarting the network, and
>> configuring AUTO eth0 in the GUI.  There is still no default route.
>> The Network Manager route option does not seem to stick.
>>
>> Any idea how to permanently fix this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric
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