DNS doesn't seem to work with RR

lhelber · 01-13-2004, 12:18 AM

I have installed suse linux onto my machine. I have a network of Windows machines connected to a router with DHCP going to the Roadrunner network. I have the machine up and running and the Samba is able to browse the windows machines just fine. I am also able to ping out to the internet and browse a website if I get the IP address. If I use a domain name the system just times out "most of the time". I don't know for some reason every once in a great while Mozilla will find the site I am looking for. Most of the time not. Everything is working for for the other machines. As far as I can tell things are setup pretty good on this end too but I have been chasing this around for 4 days and I am still not much closer in figuring out what could be wrong. Any ideas can help.

david_ross · 01-13-2004, 12:52 PM

Welcome to LQ.

Are the DNS servers set exatly the same on the clients that are and are not working?

lhelber · 01-13-2004, 03:08 PM

I have tried doing it both ways. The Windows boxes are just setup with DHCP resolving everything. I originaly to set up the linux box the same way. When that didn't work I configured it with a static IP and defined the gateway and DNS servers manualy. Roadrunner doesn't have their DNS servers posted so I tried using some others. That got me to a couple of sites (but not all) but after loading a few pages it stopped working again.

david_ross · 01-14-2004, 12:24 PM

When the windows boxes are using DHCP run:
ipconfig /all
for win9x it is:
winipcfg

You should be shown the dns servers that you should use.

lhelber · 01-14-2004, 04:45 PM

I had checked the Windoze machines and they were just pointing to the router/gateway. The linux machine originally was pointing to the same place when it wasn't working. I only changed it to try and force it to work.

As a fix, the version I was installing was Sun's Java Desktop version. I tried the SuSE Live Demo and it works fine. I am now trying to load the real version of SuSE and will see if that works.

I pretty sure it wasn't a bad install since I removed all of the partitions and tryied reinstalling from scratch. Several times. Same results every time. From the looks of it I think I am going to be happier with the "real" linux.

Thanks for your help.