<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.24.1.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> BTW, when you are trouble-shooting, you can look at /etc/resolv.conf to see what the current DNS settings are. eg. david@eeepc:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by NetworkManager nameserver 192.168.1.1 On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 17:30 -0700, leegold wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> David, With XP I have the wireless interface setup so it's gets DHCP but the DNS server are statically set to some good public DNS servers. This setup works well at a local cafe's wireless and I'm happy. I tried to do the same thing in Xubuntu - same laptop - and my attempts failed. Next chance I get I'll try w/that new network manager gui I installed. It should be easy: go to the setup gui for the wireless interface and statically set the DNS servers, everything else the DHCP will do. IMO the wireless discovery management should be a separate gui from the interface's gui...I didn't like nm-applet at all. Lee On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:44:17 +1100, "David Collins" <<A HREF="mailto:david.8.collins@gmail.com">david.8.collins@gmail.com</A>> said: > Lee, > > A DHCP server can allocate IP addresses AND DNS settings to DHCP > clients. > If you don't want your PC to get DNS settings from DHCP, though, you > need to configure the DHCP server to NOT give out DNS settings. > You then manually specify the DNS servers that the PC uses, on the PC. > (Of course, when you change the settings on the DHCP server, ALL DHCP > clients will be affected.) > > I hope that answers your question at least partly. > > Regards, > David > > > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 16:16 -0700, leegold wrote: > > > I wanted to keep everything the same but just change the DNS servers > > my > > pc was using while browsing the internet. I want DHCP to do everything > > else - but I want to tweak the servers I use after DHCP does it's > > thing. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>