[Server-devel] resolv.conf

John Watlington wad at laptop.org
Tue Aug 26 10:08:58 EDT 2008


I've figured out more about why my first install of 0.4 went so badly.

For some reason, the network interfaces weren't configured properly
on first boot (even though the files were in the right places).
In conjuction with having the cable to my wired net plugged into the
LAN port, nothing was happening.

What worried me in addition to the above was that DNS had completely  
broken.
Any DNS queries on the server (host/dig/nslookup), such as  
"schoolserver",
were hanging.  But queries directed to the DNS server on localhost  
were just fine.

The answer is that /etc/resolv.conf should probably point to localhost,
not the address of one of the interfaces (172.18.0.1).   Just in case...

I'll git the change after a suitable comment period.

Second install went like a breeze,
wad



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