Your router may actually be misconfigured.

I suggest setting up your computer as a DMZ in the router's settings and seeing if anything happens.

I do not know what you are talking about. I am a linux newbee. I would appreciate it if you would give me more details.

Thanks

if u r getting host not found then either u have ur router misconfigured or maybe u have wrong entries in ur system

do one thing

install the package "bind" and "caching nameserver" in ur system ,or see if u have that installed


then start that service by


service named start

and add the line

nameserver <ip addresss of ur machine>

to ur /etc/resolv.conf

and see if it works

regards

hey

thanks, it worked

glad that it worked!!

the problem there was of ur nameserver(DNS server)and now since u r running ur own u need not depend on any other

also do this so that named starts by itself from next time

chkconfig named on

regards

Do simple things ..

check your IP address (use ifconfig eth0 .. to see what's it at ..)

open a window to your router ..
something like .. 192.168.1.1 (it should show you that).


Make sure you have DHCP enabled on your port.

run ping to one ore two of your nodes .. like ping the router ... ping another machine on the network ... then start going towards yahoo .. or others that
would need to be resolved by dns ..
BUT THAT WON:T HAPPEN UNLESS YOU ARE USING DHCP .. or setting the DNS addresses by hand .. try DHCP .. it 'works for the whole world and will surely work for you.;


Don't pay attention to these these "route" command guys .. they are just making it unnecessarily complicated.. it's NOT NECESSARY.

So your saying nevermind doing what works?

And oh yea, try DHCP your troubles are over?


Not trying to be mean but he did actually know and solve the problem.

/etc/resolv.conf is not updating or the router was misconfigured, which is a DNS problem. He started a dns server. (did not fix the problem but had a work around) It did work.


From his original resolv.conf file the contents are from dhcp but the nameserver looks wrong, which looks like the router needs the correct nameservers in it. Or he's firewalled the nameserver. So his local DNS works.

what i think is that u should not depend on dhcp untill other ways are there

one simple example will be like when u are starting ur linux machine and if u depend on dhcp for ur IP address and if ur windows machine is not UP then u won't get an IP address and u will have to configure it with DHCP again after that win mahcine is up

also caching nameserver is good since u don't have to go anywhere to resolve ur IP address after they are cached and they will be resolved locally

also i think it is not easy , without using route coommand because i too have faced a lot of problems which were solved after i got a clearer picture using the route command

regards