obtaining DNS from DHCP

mohtasham1983 · 12-24-2005, 06:45 PM

Hi,
I have a dual boot fedora 4 and windows XP on my computer. on windows I can get DNS easily and i can have access to all servers just by writing their names. but in linux i have to write their address in order to connect them.
when i execute the following command
cat /etc/resolv.conf
i get following results:
nameserver 212.15.127.1
nameserver 212.15.122.253

but i think this address is wrong.
if in windows i can get DNS it means my network has DNS enabled.

I got so confused about this problem!!!

comprookie2000 · 12-24-2005, 07:18 PM

Did you set up /etc/hosts

mohtasham1983 · 12-24-2005, 07:31 PM

in my network computers get IP from dhcp dynamically so IP addresses change all the time. moreover if i want to make a server with a name other people are not able to connect to it by writing its name

comprookie2000 · 12-24-2005, 07:44 PM

You should be able to use dnsmasq
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/buci-dnsmasq.html