Checking internet connection without a winbox

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 05:08, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 03/07/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No need to reset.  You can check the responses individually
> > with:
> >  dig @192.114.47.4 some_address
> > etc.
> >
> > 192.168.123.254 is a private address - is it yours?
> 
> Yes, 192.168.123.254 is the address of the router.
> 
> Les, when I erase the first entry, and then reboot the machine, it
> comes back. How do I prevent that?

There is a checkbox in the network setup that controls whether
you use the dhcp-supplied DNS servers or not, but others have
mentioned a bug in it.  Did you try the 'dig' command to
test each of the addresses?  If they work but are slow,
you could improve things by installing the caching-nameserver
package.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com