[ale] can ping out by #.#.#.# but not by www.name.xxx, under DEBIAN ?

[briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net (Jim Philips)]

On Sunday 15 October 2006 14:40, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Jim,
> I should have added that I don't find "dhcpd" anywhere on the HD.
> Don't I have to have dhcpd running for all this to work ?
> There is a dhcp.so.* type file resident, however.

You should find dhcpcd (client daemon) or dhclient or dhclient3. If those 
aren't running, you aren't running dhcp

>
> Courtney
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop at yahoo.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] can ping out by #.#.#.# but not by www.name.xxx,under
> DEBIAN ?
>
> > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 12:45 -0400, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > > I'm tryin' to switch to DHCP and using linuxconf, am failing to resolve
> > > names, though
> > > I have input the proper nameservers into /etc/resolv.conf.
> > >
> > > I  can ping out to 130.57.5.25 for example but not to www.novell.com
> > >
> > > I'm flyin' under DSL hence the DHCP on the local LAN.
> > >
> > > What's the cure, please ?
> >
> > Can you ping the DNS servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf?
> >
> > -Jim P.
> >
> >
> >
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