[sclug] Finally getting broadband and resolv.conf

[J.Mann]

> I don't have the faintest of ideas on how to write this file. I can get
> the required IP information but have no idea how it should be set out.

For future reference, manual pages are your friend:

  man resolv.conf

Will give you a very terse description of the file format.

Regards,
Jon Mann


On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:16:02PM +0000, Sandeep Varma wrote:
> Hi everybody
> 
> Finally got Broadband today, with BT Yahoo, and to no surprise, all
> the installation manuals were biased and windows based. However, I got
> hunting, and I found linux support for the hardware.
> 
> The modem itself is USB based, the model is Thompson/Alcatel
> Speedtouch 330. I have found drivers for it, and by compiling the
> driver, I have verification that the modem is workinig, however, one
> problem is being reported, that the DNS server cannot be identified,
> and that resolv.conf cannot be read correctly. I'm pretty new to the
> whole conecpt of resolv.conf (Didn't know the file existed beforehand)
> but I'm guessing that it stores the IP addresses of the DNS servers of
> BT Yahoo, however, I don't have the faintest of ideas on how to write
> this file. I can get the required IP information but have no idea how
> it should be set out.
> 
> Anyone willing to lend me a helping hand?
> 
> Thanks in Advance
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> Sandeep Varma, Slough, UK
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