[Gllug] Network problems

[John G Walker]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:30:24 +0100 Bruce Richardson
<itsbruce at workshy.org> wrote:

> > I've no idea where 195.238.237.143 comes from. It's nothing to do
> > with me, guv. The same happens on the other machines, except that
> > the last triplet is 142.  
> 
> OK, it sounds as if you may have DNS resolution problems.  Check
> /etc/resolv.conf on the Linux boxes; is there a "search" or "domain"
> line and what does it contain?  Check the DNS settings for the windows
> boxes as well.  Also, go to the command line on these boxes and try
> resolving the address for PC-G using your cli tool of choice (host,
> dig, nslookup or whatever).
> 

Interesting. Where does nslookup get its information from?

I'm now running with only PC-A switched on. I shut down everything,
including the router, and restarted just the one PC and the router. I
thought that might help remove ambiguities, and wouldn't do any harm.

I then ran nslookup, which gave the "non-authoritative answer"

Address: 195.238.237.142

and

Address: 195.238.237.143

The only place this could come from is somewhere on PC-A. Anybody know
where?
 

> Do you have wins lines in smb.conf?

It wouldn't ever have worked if I hadn't. :)

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 All the best,
 John
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