[Wylug-help] DNS problems on a PC

[Mike Goodman]

Mike Goodman wrote:
> 
> 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.

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>> 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? 
This is suddenly pertinent for the here and now.

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

No joy, I'm afraid. The new settings were cleared in the reboot. How do
I glue them in?