How can I find out what my system'd DNS setting is? - Newbie question

OK, under windows using the ipconfig command I can tell what a system
thinks it's DNS is.

Unfortunately IFCONFIG doesn't - well, at least *I* can't figure out
how to make it.

Can anyone tell me what command to use to determine what a Linux
system thinks it's DNS is?

TIA,

Ninereeds

So anyway, it was like, 13:00 CET Feb 20 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Ninereeds was all like, "Dude,

> Can anyone tell me what command to use to determine what a Linux
> system thinks it's DNS is?

'grep nameserver /etc/resolv.conf'

hth.

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Ninereeds <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what command to use to determine what a Linux
> system thinks it's DNS is?

cat /etc/resolv.conf

Or of course, something like "nslookup localhost".

Peter

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P.T. Breuer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Ninereeds <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what command to use to determine what a Linux
> > system thinks it's DNS is?

> cat /etc/resolv.conf

> Or of course, something like "nslookup localhost".

He might like to try an additional:

man 5 nsswitch.conf

BTW
Looks like your are still using this rather old tin version.


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Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for
inconvenience, but I get tons of spam.
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Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Looks like your are still using this rather old tin version.

User-Agent: tin/1.7.3-20031220 ("Taransay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.22 (i686))

Hmm. Yours doesn't look that new to me. Anyway, this *IS* slackware 3.0.


Peter

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, P.T. Breuer wrote:
> Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Looks like your are still using this rather old tin version.
>
> User-Agent: tin/1.7.3-20031220 ("Taransay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.22 (i686))
>
> Hmm. Yours doesn't look that new to me. Anyway, this *IS* slackware 3.0.
How did you upgrade Slackware 3.0 to 2.4.22? Are you still
using Libc5 with it? My Slackware 3.0 software still is using the
2.0.38 kernal version. I am actually running a Slackware 3.9 box here.
I haven't used 3.0 for Ages!
I started porting Slackware 8.0 to Libc5 which I should get
back to someday.

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P.T. Breuer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > Looks like your are still using this rather old tin version.

> User-Agent: tin/1.7.3-20031220 ("Taransay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.22 (i686))

> Hmm. Yours doesn't look that new to me. Anyway, this *IS* slackware 3.0.


Ops, from the "snapshot" dir, looks like you got me on this one.


This is RH 7.3.

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B'ichela <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, P.T. Breuer wrote:
> > Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >> Looks like your are still using this rather old tin version.
> >
> > User-Agent: tin/1.7.3-20031220 ("Taransay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.22 (i686))
> >
> > Hmm. Yours doesn't look that new to me. Anyway, this *IS* slackware 3.0.

> How did you upgrade Slackware 3.0 to 2.4.22?

That's his User-Agent line, not mine. I am running 2.2.15 (much modded
by now). Not that it makes a difference, because the kernel is
independent of the distro.

> Are you still using Libc5 with it?

Yes.

> My Slackware 3.0 software still is using the
> 2.0.38 kernal version.

I never went beyond 2.0.36, I think. I was on 2.0.25 for a
long long time. Here's /boot:

% ls -lrt /boot/
total 1691
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2329 Aug 23 1995 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93849 Aug 23 1995 zSystem.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Nov 10 1995 boot.0303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 May 25 1996 any_b.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4416 May 25 1996 boot.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 May 25 1996 any_d.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192 May 25 1996 os2_d.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 May 25 1996 chain.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 May 26 1997 boot.0300
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4536 Jun 23 1997 boot.b-2.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Jun 23 1997 chain.b-2.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308 Jun 23 1997 os2_d.b-2.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root prof 15476 Apr 17 1998 memtest
-rw-r--r-- 1 root prof 512 Jul 30 1998 boot.0340
-rw-r--r-- 1 root prof 755 Nov 7 1998 hda-partitions
-rw-r--r-- 1 ptb prof 605 Dec 10 1998 part-dump
-rw-r--r-- 1 root prof 512 Feb 15 1999 boot.0305
-rw-r--r-- 1 root prof 512 Feb 15 1999 boot.0301
-rw-r--r-- 1 root prof 380708 Mar 10 1999 vmlinuz.536-compr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root prof 512 Apr 1 1999 boot.1600
-rw-r--r-- 1 root prof 4592 Apr 21 2000 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root prof 612 Apr 21 2000 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root prof 644 Apr 21 2000 os2_d.b
...


> I am actually running a Slackware 3.9 box here.
> I haven't used 3.0 for Ages!

Well, of course not.

> I started porting Slackware 8.0 to Libc5 which I should get
> back to someday.

Real men use libc4. That ELF stuff is for cissies.

Peter

(E-Mail Removed) (P.T. Breuer) writes:

> Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Looks like your are still using this rather old tin version.
>
> User-Agent: tin/1.7.3-20031220 ("Taransay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.22 (i686))
>
> Hmm. Yours doesn't look that new to me. Anyway, this *IS* slackware 3.0.

Cool. Have you ha 3.0 on that box since it was new, or are you
running 3.0 for some other reason?

Billy O'Connor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) (P.T. Breuer) writes:
>
> > Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >> Looks like your are still using this rather old tin version.
> >
> > User-Agent: tin/1.7.3-20031220 ("Taransay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.22 (i686))
> >
> > Hmm. Yours doesn't look that new to me. Anyway, this *IS* slackware 3.0.
>
> Cool. Have you ha 3.0 on that box since it was new, or are you
> running 3.0 for some other reason?

As far as I can recall, I put 3.0 on in order to move to ELF
comfortably. Before I think there was 2.2 on it. The box itself at
that time was a P120. Since then the box has changed and so have its
disks and processor and ... but the distro hasn't changed. Dunno how
much of the original stuff is left. I note I have 2GB in /usr/local.

Peter