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crovax123
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hello i just completed the instalation of gentoo and wanted to start whit making my desktop envirement but now i cant get emerge sync to work
if i use ifconfig i get my networkconection nice but i cant ping anithing
can anybody tell me wath to do??? |
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GentooBox
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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check your nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf
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crovax123
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| i dont know how i should use nameserver to connect to the internet i use a smoothwal firewall and dont know how i can give it a name |
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GentooBox
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You'll need nameservers to resove a hostname to a ipaddress.
for an exsample:
when you open your webbrowser and go to http://google.com
then you go to http://216.239.39.99 instead.
you connect to a nameserver when you resolv http://google.com to http://216.239.39.99
is there anything in /etc/resolv.conf ?
can you ping google.com ?
can you ping your firewall ?
try pinging google.com ipaddress: 216.239.39.99
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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crovax123,
Smoothwall is your nameserver.
In your /etc/resolv.conf you need
| Code: | | nameserver <IP of smoothwall> |
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crovax123
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks i am gonna try that now |
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linux_weenie
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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if its smoothwall then it probably has DHCP enabled and you should just be able to type:
if you're using eth0 as the nic.
-Will
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crovax123
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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yep i forgot to activate dhcp  |
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