DNS via Linksys ADSL2MUE modem not working properly

[Luis]

Can you do:

cat /etc/nsswitch.conf

and paste the result of that here

then do the same with

/etc/resolv.conf (hide the IPs that you don't want shown)

lastly, make sure that your MTU value for the card that's connected to
the DSL line is 1492 or so (some Linksys had problems with MTU's
higher than that):

ifconfig

And look for MTU:....

If it says 1500, which is the default, you might want to lower that
value and try again.

Now, I can't tell you what's best because I don't know how your
configuration is. But, assuming that Linksys connects to your ISP via
DSL and you connect to the Linksys via eth0, then in the Linksys make
sure that the MTU setting is 1492 and do the same thing on your eth0
net interface.

Hope that helps.

You might want to google how to set your MTU settings with debian
/etc/network/interfaces file. (or perhaps man interfaces).

On 5/20/06, Neil Woolford <neil at neilwoolford.co.uk> wrote:
> Derek Broughton <news <at> pointerstop.ca> writes:
>
> >
> > Neil Woolford wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > If I use dig to query DNS it works fine;  for example,
> > > "$ dig  <at> 192.168.1.1 a.domain.by.name"
> > > returns a sensible result, citing the DNS Server as 192.168.1.1.
> > >
> > ...
> > >
> > > So if command line tools can use the modem as a DNS Server, why can't my
> > > applications like Firefox et al?
> >
> > Hang on!  That's not fair.  You apparently had to tell dig to use
> > 192.168.1.1 as the domain server.  Did you get a different result from:
> >
> > # dig a.domain.by.name
>
> No, that works fine too.  But *most* apps still don't get out to the internet
> through the ADSL2MUE without me tweaking the configuration to add my ISP's DNS
> addresses ahead of 192.168.1.1
>
> However, update-manager does work fine out of the box, Firefox (for example)
> doesn't.  I can tweak things to make the system work fine, it is just that I
> don't think I should *need* to.
>
> Neil
>
>
>
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