enable DNS

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Jun 11 20:54:47 UTC 2004



Nina Pham wrote:

> hi, I tried to ping to yahoo, but it failed with error : unknown host 
> yahoo.com. I think I didn't enable DNS. But when I restart "named", it 
> doesn't report any thing. Any idea?
>
> Nina
>
You don't need to start DNS unless you are running your own nameserver. 
 You do need to have a functioning nameserver listed in 
/etc/resolv.conf, and a route to the internet.  

Are you using a static IP? or DHCP to get your address?  Does your ISP 
provide DNS for you?





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