DNS trouble - last hope

hi everyone,

sorry to start another thread on my DNS issues. as yet, they are still
unresolved.

here i am writing this from my windows PC because trying to work my way
through the messages on Usenet on my linux PC is now a sorrowful ordeal
as well.

so again:
- surfing sucks, some websites timeout
- pinging by name (yahoo.com) times out. pinging by IP address works
flawlessly.
- can listen to internet radio (connected with xmms by IP address to the
website) and yet, can't even surf to or ping the website by name.
- installed mepis linux on my brother's PC along with Windows 2000
dual-boot. and he's given up on linux after a week because of the exact
same problems i'm having.

we both have an ADSL connection, shared through a router. he's got a
netgear and i've got a d-link.

- from both our windows PCs everything works flawlessly, from my iMac
with OS X everything works great.
only in linux am i having problems. i've been using linux as my primary
OS for 4 years. and i can't seem to figure this out. because of the
nightmare it's giving me, and not getting any answers from google or
here, i may have no choice but to get rid of linux myself.

does anyone have any suggestions? at all?
is no one else having these problems when using a router to share the
internet connection?

if i didn't mention this before. when i go straight from the ADSL modem
to my linux PC everything is seems fine. so i'm pretty damn sure it's a
problem with Linux and my router. but what??? and not just my router.
i've tried a d-link and an SMC router, and my bother has a netgear. and
why do my iMac and my Windows boxes work without a problem?

thanks for any kind suggestions.

i'm using ubuntu and my brother's using mepis.

In comp.os.linux.misc johnny bobby bee <(E-Mail Removed)>:
[..]
> so again:
> - surfing sucks, some websites timeout
> - pinging by name (yahoo.com) times out. pinging by IP address works
> flawlessly.
[..]

> why do my iMac and my Windows boxes work without a problem?

Sounds like their dhcp client sw is per default configured to use
the nameserver delivered by the router, your Linux box isn't.
Check the docs of whatever dhcp client sw you are running and
configure it to allow changing "/etc/resolv.conf".

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your dns(es) are specified in the /etc/resolv.conf file.

On windows, you can use ipconfig /all ( or winipcfg /all )
to see what DNSes your using with windows. If they are
different, edit (use pico or nano or gedit ) your
/etc/resolv.conf file and change it to use the same DNSes.
See if that fixes it.

If not, you can try doing
dig www.yahoo.com
and report the results.

jack



On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 20:23:31 +0000, johnny bobby bee wrote:

> hi everyone,
>
> sorry to start another thread on my DNS issues. as yet, they are still
> unresolved.
>
> here i am writing this from my windows PC because trying to work my way
> through the messages on Usenet on my linux PC is now a sorrowful ordeal
> as well.
>
> so again:
> - surfing sucks, some websites timeout
> - pinging by name (yahoo.com) times out. pinging by IP address works
> flawlessly.
> - can listen to internet radio (connected with xmms by IP address to the
> website) and yet, can't even surf to or ping the website by name.
> - installed mepis linux on my brother's PC along with Windows 2000
> dual-boot. and he's given up on linux after a week because of the exact
> same problems i'm having.
>
> we both have an ADSL connection, shared through a router. he's got a
> netgear and i've got a d-link.
>
> - from both our windows PCs everything works flawlessly, from my iMac
> with OS X everything works great.
> only in linux am i having problems. i've been using linux as my primary
> OS for 4 years. and i can't seem to figure this out. because of the
> nightmare it's giving me, and not getting any answers from google or
> here, i may have no choice but to get rid of linux myself.
>
> does anyone have any suggestions? at all?
> is no one else having these problems when using a router to share the
> internet connection?
>
> if i didn't mention this before. when i go straight from the ADSL modem
> to my linux PC everything is seems fine. so i'm pretty damn sure it's a
> problem with Linux and my router. but what??? and not just my router.
> i've tried a d-link and an SMC router, and my bother has a netgear. and
> why do my iMac and my Windows boxes work without a problem?
>
> thanks for any kind suggestions.
>
> i'm using ubuntu and my brother's using mepis.

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Michael Heiming wrote:

> Sounds like their dhcp client sw is per default configured to use
> the nameserver delivered by the router, your Linux box isn't.
> Check the docs of whatever dhcp client sw you are running and
> configure it to allow changing "/etc/resolv.conf".
>

after all this madness. cross my fingers i think i've got it. i removed
dhclient3 and installed dhcpcd which didn't, by default write over
/etc/resolv.conf. after about an hour surfing so far, all is well again.


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