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[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

sithi vinayagam shanmugakani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Iam Sithi, very fresher to the LINUX world, I some how managed to 
> install UBUNTU 5.10 (really impressive) in VM workstation version 5.0 
> running on a windows 2003 server.
> 
> Please clarify me the following points
> 
> I have 2 ethernet card - (bridged respectively for the VM purpose) one 
> for the ADSL connection and the other for the LAN connection
> 
> Every configuration for both the ethernet cards are done and are working 
> fine (thanks to the detailed configuration provided on the WIKI)
> 
> The problem is i could able to ping all the website address in the 
> terminal window and even on the browser window (i.e, instead of typing 
> www.google.co.in, i got to give the ip address of the web)
> 
> To attend this problem i tried installing "resolvconf" which has not 
> installed defaultly. I could not work out install this. Please help me 
> in this regard
> 
> for your information, i had given the ip-address in the repositories 
> (software sources dialogue box) in the synaptec package manager, but it 
> reaches the given source and failed with a file not found error.
> 
> Please help in this regard
> sithi
> 
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Hmmm, when you ping, do you ping with a computer name or IP? Also, I 
think resolvconf is just the framework(someone correct me if I am 
wrong), for storing DNS info. Tools like ifupdown, DHCP, ... update this 
file. Other software like Name resolving libraries, use them. I haven't 
installed resolvconf and my internet still works. But, then again I am 
not using VM.

Is your network connections setup properly? In a terminal, when you run 
'ifconfig' command, whats the output? Also what info do you have in 
'/etc/resolv.cof'. You can use this command to see the contents of the 
file -> 'cat /etc/resolv.cof'. Do you use an external router or PPOE modem?

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Sarangan Thuraisingham
ECS, University of Southampton, UK

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