DNS Problem

Slicksilver555 · 05-14-2009, 10:15 PM

I can't connect to the internet on Mandriva 2009 Spring, and I was able to ping that IP that tells you if it's a DNS problem, but not 192.168.1.1 (I know that's my router's IP I have used it before) and I can't connect to any sites. My DNS server boxes are currently empty, what do I put in them?

blacky_5251 · 05-14-2009, 11:19 PM

The value you put in here is either the DNS server for your ISP, or a public DNS server.

I suggest you contact your ISP and ask them what your DNS server values should be.

Slicksilver555 · 05-14-2009, 11:46 PM

I whois'd myself and I got four nameservers, I tried putting in the first two and that didn't work.

I should also mention when I tried to have it auto-configure IP and DNS servers it woudn't connect, but when I typed 192.168.1.45 into the IP address box it worked.

blacky_5251 · 05-14-2009, 11:48 PM

You don't have to use the servers that look after DNS for your own domain name. It is faster to use your ISP's DNS server because they are closer to you and you won't have as many hops to get to them when your system performs a DNS lookup.

Slicksilver555 · 05-15-2009, 12:16 AM

nono, the nameserver is from my ISP, but it doesn't help at all.

blacky_5251 · 05-15-2009, 12:19 AM

Are you entering the IP address of your name servers, or the server names?

Earlier you said you "whois'd" yourself. This leads me to believe you were looking to see which servers would respond to a DNS request for your domain name. Perhaps you could explain further by posting what you've actually done.

This is hard when you don't clearly post what you're doing and what the actual responses are.

Slicksilver555 · 05-15-2009, 12:28 AM

I went to http://seemyip.com
Went into terminal
Typed in Whois [myip]
I got back a bunch of stuff including:
nameserver: DNS1.RR.COM
nameserver: DNS2.RR.COM
nameserver: DNS3.RR.COM
nameserver: DNS4.RR.COM

I went into wireless, hit config and typed into DNS1
DNS1.RR.COM
and into DNS2
DNS2.RR.COM

I then re-connected to my wifi and went to http://Google.com
It said "Firefix can't find the server at www.google.com.
The browser could not find the host server for the provided address.
(troubleshootingstuffhere)"

blacky_5251 · 05-15-2009, 12:46 AM

OK, much clearer now. You need to enter the IP address of the DNS servers, not their names (chicken and egg stuff). So go back and enter the IP numbers, not the server names.

Slicksilver555 · 05-15-2009, 01:09 AM

I don't believe it provided any.

blacky_5251 · 05-15-2009, 01:13 AM

Contact your ISP. They'll be able to tell you the numbers you need to enter. For now, try these free/public DNS servers.

Code:

156.154.70.1
156.154.71.1
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

As I said earlier, you should use the ISP DNS because it will be faster.

Slicksilver555 · 05-15-2009, 01:28 AM

Now it's stuck on "Looking up www.google.com..."

blacky_5251 · 05-15-2009, 02:25 AM

Can you ping any sites names - not IP addresses. Try "traceroute www.google.com" or "dig www.google.com" and post the output.

We need details! Details!!!

Slicksilver555 · 05-15-2009, 07:18 PM

bash: traceroute: command not found

for dig:

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-P1 <<>> www.google.com
;; global potions: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

blacky_5251 · 05-15-2009, 07:50 PM

Sorry, traceroute should be tracert. What does "netstat -nr" report?

Slicksilver555 · 05-15-2009, 08:04 PM

Code:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination   Gateway         Genmask           Flags   MSS Window   irtt Iface
192.168.1.0      0.0.0.0           255.255.255.0     U           0        0           0  wlan0
169.254.0.0    0.0.0.0           255.255.0.0         U           0        0           0  wlan0
0.0.0.0           192.168.1.1        0.0.0.0                 UG         0        0           0  wlan0

Wow I really hope that will be formatted when I post this, that took forever for me to format.