Where do I specify DNS servers?

peeples · 11-24-2002, 11:10 AM

To make a long story short, I screwed up and had to start again. I've completed LFS4.0, got started into BLFS and have completed XFree86-4.2.1 and Mozilla 1.2. When I try to get on the 'net, I get a "not found" (I'm sure that google is there today, aren't they???). My host distro required that I input my ISP's DNS servers. Where do we put these numbers for LFS? I found that RH7.3 uses a file called resolv.conf but I can't seem to find this in the LFS book. Am I just stOOpid or is it not there. I can't look at the BLFS, because something is wrong with it today (says: "Forbidden: you don't have permissions to access /blfs/intro.shtml on this server")

Where do I put the IP address for my ISP's DNS server?

Thanks.

Denny

shelby · 11-24-2002, 01:36 PM

Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-lo

Hope this helps

peeples · 11-24-2002, 03:44 PM

Unless I did something drastically wrong, there is NO networking directory under /etc/sysconfig in LFS4.0. The only sub-directory in there is network-devices, and I can't find anything to do with DNS in that directory.

It is there in my Redhat system, but ifcfg-lo has nothing to do with the IP addy of the DNS servers.

But, thanks for the response. Anyone else on where to input the IP of my ISP's DNS servers for LFS4.0????

moses · 11-24-2002, 04:29 PM

Have you tried just putting it in a file called /etc/resolv.conf? That's where
it's always been on all the unices I've used.

peeples · 11-24-2002, 04:43 PM

Yeah, as a matter of fact, I just copied the resolv.conf from my host distro into my LFS. But, somewhere in the bootscripts that file has to be called up and read, right?

It didn't make any difference to my problem.

Anybody else?

adam_boz · 11-24-2002, 04:58 PM

I think that if you put the dns servers in /etc/resolve.conf in this syntax:

nameserver 206.13.28.12
nameserver 206.13.29.12

then that part of it should be o.k.

Are you using dhcp (that sets the resolv.conf automatically)? do you have your gateway set up? can you ping your gateway?

what does /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth* look like?

peeples · 11-24-2002, 05:08 PM

Problem resolved (pardon the pun).

Boy, now I really feel stoopid. I had copied the file from my host distro into my LFS. Neglected to check permissions once it was copied (they were at 600), when I changed 'em to 644, everything works like a charm. In fact, this is the first post from my newly minted LFS4.0 (second time throught the book).

Thanks guys.