[Wylug-help] DNS problems on a PC

[Mike Goodman]

James Holden wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 07:32:16PM +0100, Mike Goodman wrote:
>> Hi, Folks,
>>
>> For the past fortnight or so I've been having problems resolving to
>> names from this machine, although it can find IP addresses OK. It's on
>> Ubuntu 7.10.
> 
> Sounds like wonky DNS.
It most certainly does.
> 
>> Is it a BIND problem? If so, how do I find the BIND settings and what
>> should they be?
> 
> BIND is a standard DNS *server*, so unlikely to be the cause of the
> problem, as you're probably not running it.
> 
>> If it's not BIND, what might it be and how do I fix it?
> 
> You need to find out what name servers your machine is set to use.
> They're listed in /etc/resolv.conf

Yes. My router, 192.168.0.1
> 
> They'll usually be picked up by DHCP - often your ADSL router will act
> as a proxy for your ISPs name servers.
> 
> You may be better using OpenDNS, in which case you can use the network
> manager to set the DNS servers to:

Where would I enter them? The system deletes manual entries to
/etc/resolv.conf - I added them into the "search domains" box. So now
should I restart the network? Anyone know the command for that on
Debian/Ubuntu? For future reference, that is. I'm about to reboot the
machine to see if it's worked.

Thanks again,

Mike
> 
> 208.67.222.222
> and
> 208.67.220.220
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Mike
>>
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