resolv.conf

iain_mh · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 7

My newly installed Gentoo partition cannot find a host. /sbin /ifconfig shows a properly installed ethernet device and the modem and street-to-house connection have been pinged and come up golden.

I copied the resolv.conf file as per instruction upon installation, but I suspect it 's flawed.

It reads:

nameserver 64.59.114.18
nameserver 64.59.114.19
search vc.shawcable.net

The Live/InstallCD and the chroot environment found the network just fine before I compiled the kernel. And yes, the appropriate modules have been compiled. I've even installed a D-Link network card in addition to my onboard Marvell Gigabit LAN for troubleshooting purposes. Neither gives any joy.

I've had heaps of connection problems over the last month but have managed to correct most of them. IE, this may be a Shawcable problem but I need to know before they show up at my front-door next Monday.

Bare-bones Gentoo boots correctly.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

thx,

anello · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject:

Both of your DNS Server seem down or at least aren't pingable. Did you try to add some other DNS Server instead?

nixnut · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Networking & Security.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject:

Hi and welcome to the forums.

If you suspect networking problems, you should follow a troubleshooting methodology.
1. Try to ping forums.gentoo.org

iain_mh · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 7

Did you try to add some other DNS Server instead?

I haven't and I don't really know how for sure.

Your instruction would be taken very kindly.

I

m_sqrd · Guru Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 367

I have a ? how did you get your /etc/resolv.conf by DHCP ?
if so I think some one is been up to something!

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject:

The option to use the DNS servers provided by the DHCP server can be set or removed in /etc/conf.d/domain.

m_sqrd · Guru Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 367

Do a dig -x on his namesevers and you'll see why I ask.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject:

Yep, you're right! There's something fishy in there.
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jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:33 pm Post subject:

iain_mh,

from your first post I've gathered the following.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject:

iain_mh,

how confident are you on your provider? I wouldn't like to see the following in my provider. :!:

iain_mh · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 7

Apart from having had to occasionally kill some unsolicted pop-ups, I can think of no reason why a porn site would show up in my system files. I've got teenage boys but I pretty much trust them and besides, they don't use this partition. I'm truly mystified and disturbed.

As for Shaw, they are one of the top three cable providers in Canada. I have my quibbles with them but never before on this type of security issue.

As I said in my original post, the cable guy is coming out tomorrow to do a physical check on the modem and the tree-to-house connection, even though the electronic tests show a live if mildly degraded signal. And as I also said, my cable-feed has been extremely erratic over the past month or so. But in addition, the box itself has been performing oddly. Particulary, the monitor output has to be tweaked on boot about 75% of the time in order for it to display properly. The onset of that behaviour roughly coincides with the problems I've been encountering with my cable connection. I've never had a virus under Linux but I'm beginning to wonder....

I'm going to print the output of the query showing the questionable resolution of my nameservers for my tech to see, but I'm not confident he'll be able to decipher it. They don't support Linux. Anything you guys could add would be greatly appreciated.

Thx in advance,

I

m_sqrd · Guru Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 367

I still like to know how your getting you address
if by DHCP then cat /var/lib/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info and look at the

gakula · n00b Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 72

I'd suggest to install local DNS server in caching mode. I do that to be independent of ISP's DNS problems. All ISP I ever had experience with were dumb enough to have misconfigured or unreliable DNS servers. Beside that, you'd get slight improvement as you wont need to send DNS requests by network.

iain_mh · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 7

Have finally installed Gentoo pretty correctly I think...

A few problems were encountered and lots are left but things are improving.

Had the cable-guy out but he just made things worse. Shaw has as much as admitted their culpability for the network problem. They've installed new routers which were in the process of being adjusted.

Anyway, I bypassed the Gigabit driver and stuck with the D-Link card I installed, but the fact that the extra network card is eth1 seemed to send the installation for a bit of a loop: It would connect but only if I manually ran dhcpcd eth1 in the console once the system was booted. The handbook suggested linking eth1 to eth0 but I also had to find and uncomment the eth1 entry in /etc/conf.d/net in order to connect at boot.

Also, the installation recognised my wheel-mouse but failed to activate its scroll function (the wheel). But when I went to amend the xorg.conf file to correct things, I found I had no xorg.conf file!. Anyway, I ran xorgconfig and then manually edited my new xorg.conf file to introduce my mouse's ZAxisMapping function and all is now well in that department. Thx to Gentoo Forums for that.

Still having problems with defaulting to NumLock though. When I boot to the prompt it works but when I start KDE it disappears. Also, when I elect to boot startx by default, KDE refuses to allow me to login as root.

Thx

I