Problems setting up DNS, gateway und subnetmask!

[David Hart]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:36:28AM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote:
> Hi David, you are right!
> with the command
> route -n
> 
> he shows me successfully the route to the desired gateway you told me. 
> But what about the nameservers? And what is IPforwarding? Do I have to 
> enable that flag in the options file?

You can add the nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf (do 'man resolv.conf'
from a terminal if you need to find out how).

You only need ip_forward set to yes if your Ubuntu box is going to be a
gateway for the rest of your network.  If not it's better left at the
default of no.
 
-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>