ubuntu karmic RC

[Tom H]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetil1001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I installed Karmic RC last night, and everything works nice, except a
> little problem: internet is up and working (I can use skype),
> but firefox starts, but doesn`nt find any web pages. The reason is
> clearly that the dns system is not working.

> When I had such problems earlier, iI used to edit some files
> /etc/resol.conf
> /etc/network/interfaces
> manually, using sudo pico ....
> and then
> sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
> and everything worked. But this does not work now!!!
> (I`m writing this on a windows machine)

resolv.conf will be overwritten the next time that you renew your DHCP
lease unless you exclude acquiring DNS servers from your DHCP lease
request.

Check the DNS settings that the DHCP server is leasing out since
adding DNS servers manually solves your problem.

I assume that Skype uses IP addresses and therefore does not use DNS.

(If you want to manage your NIC with NM but want to set up your NIC in
/e/n/i, change the "ifupdown" section of
/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf to "managed=true".)