Telnet : Temporary failure in name resolution : Host name lookup failure
Hi,
I am connected to the outside world via a proxy server. The I.P. of the proxy server is 10.10.11.2 I cannot telnet to a remote computer. Here is what I am doing : Code:
I am currently using Slackware 10.0 I know I have to do some settings somewhere, (maybe edit some files to tell telnet where to lookup for hosts etc) But at this point I am completely clueless :confused: Thanks in anticipation |
Yup you need to setup linux as dns client see by editing /etc/resolv.conf file
http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vi...ns-client.html |
Hi,
Thanks Nixcraft for the reply and the link. I'll check it out and see if I can get telnet running. Thanks :) |
Hi Nixcraft,
I read the link you gave me. It said : Code:
This is what I know about my network : I.P. address of the proxy server : 10.10.11.2 default gateway : 203.200.130.1 preferred dns server : 202.54.1.30 So, I believe my /etc/resolve.conf should look like this : Code:
I am not at my Linux box right now, so I cannot test it right now. Thanks in anticipation. |
Following shoud do the work:
Code:
nameserver 202.54.1.30 Code:
route add default gw 203.255.255.0 dev eth0 Btw proxy has no use to telnet as it will be used by ftp or http or https protocols only. |
Sorry, I couldn't get it to work :(
My /etc/resolv.conf looks like : Code:
Code:
I then tried those two commands and got the following error messages : Code:
That site told me that my D.N.S. servers were : 202.54.15.5 and 202.54.103.1 So then I added these two entries also into /etc/resolv.conf and tried the entire procedure again, but got identical results. :cry: I would again like to mention the complete scenario here : Code:
I am connected to a proxy server which has i.p. 10.10.11.2 Help needed :cry: Thanks in anticipation. |
Get correct IP info from your ISP or net admin coz procedure is same and it should work out
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Hi, I'm afraid I can't do that.
My University has got a dedicated lease line from the ISP, and then they have done campus wide networking. We've been allotted these i.p.'s by the net administrator and we cannot change these. Isn't there any way to connect to a site via telnet in a scenario like mine? I think that there ought to be some way (Or maybe I am doing something very stupid) Somebody, please help me out :confused: Thanks in anticipation. |
Hi,
Finally got it to work. I changed my i.p. to the same class as that of the default gateway. (I chose 203.200.130.79 as the i.p.). Then added the default gateway 203.200.130.1 and it worked. :) But the problem still remains :( I just changed my i.p. to test whether telnet was working or not. I cannot permanently keep this i.p. Ultimately I will have to use something like 10.10.27.204 and then the same problem would occur again. Isn't there any workaround, so that I can keep 10.10.27.204 as my i.p. also, and still connect to the outside world via telnet ?? Thanks in anticipation. |
check this it may help you
this link may help u <http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/projects/connect>
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Ummm .... not that we have a hard and fast rule for this, but re-animating
a thread that was dead for over 2 years is at least considered weird. Plus the guy had his problem resolved already? Cheers, Tink |
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