Odd DNS problem

[Ed Smits]

as I said, I am set to roaming for my networking, and all I have in my
resolve.conf file is my modem which serves as both DHCP and DNS server

nameserver 192.168.0.1

I can resolve most domains properly, it's just that I seem to be
seeing more "server not found" error messages than usual, and in at
least the one case, www.vmware.com, this was stopping me from working
properly.


ED

On 9/4/07, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> Ed Smits wrote:
> > Just moved to Europe from Canada, got broadband access last night,
> > fired up my laptop. I normally run Feisty but have an XP emergency
> > dualboot option. Connects to the Internet just fine, however I am
> > getting more than the usual number of server not found errors in
> > Firefox. Not a big deal until I wanted to download the latest VMWare
> > install file, and I can't get to anything at VMWare, server not found.
> >
> > I'm physically connected to the modem, set for roaming, so have no
> > entries in hosts etc that shouldn't be there. The router is running
> > DHCP and DNS, and for the most part I can get to most of the sites I
> > need. I assumed the problem was with my ISP's DNS setup, however as a
> > test I booted into XP, I can get to VMWare using IE6 with no problem,
> > so it seems to be correctly resolving itself. I downloaded the package
> > and installed VMWare in Ubuntu and set up XP as a client, opened that
> > up and same thing, I can get to VMWare via the bridged network
> > connection from Ubuntu but not from Ubuntu itself.
> >
> > As a test, I just installed IE6 for Linux, same thing, can't get to
> > VMWare. I tried to access it from the link on the Wikipedia entry,
> > server not found, so it's more than just a browser issue.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > ED
> >
>
> What's in your /etc/resolv.conf file?
>
> Also, since Windows seems to be working, what does Windows think it's
> DNS server is?  This should be the same as nameserver in the resolv.conf
> file.. (This value should be set automatically by the DHCP client.  But
> to start, I would verify that this is working.)
>
> Are you able to resolve any domain names at all?
>
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