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Can someone give me an example of what should be in this file?

thanks

Code:

nameserver 192.168.0.1

search thirtythreeandathird.net

all that mine says.

chris, what is the nameserver? Is this your dns server? Can it be my ISP? What does the second line mean? Thanks

Quote:

Originally posted by Tigger
chris, what is the nameserver? Is this your dns server? Can it be my ISP? What does the second line mean? Thanks

Yes that would be his own name server which you most likely couldn't use as yours.

If you don't have your own name server, you would have to put in your own ISP's nameserver or DNS server they provide in that same format..

Usually like this:

Code:

search your-ISP-nameserver

nameserver  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

nameserver  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

The xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx defined above in the example is where you will want to put your actual IP address of your DNS entries provided by your ISP.