Setting up IP & DNS

Koenpje · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 128

During the installation I had an internet connection and could dowload packages, kernels,...

But now after the installation of Gentoo, I have a IP but that's it. I can ping my other computers in my network, and I can ping my router, but I can't ping sites. So I think I need to set a DNS? But where?

Headrush · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:37 pm Post subject:

You probably need to set the default gateway to the IP of your router.
Usually this is 192.168.1.1

I believe this is set in /etc/conf.d/net with a line like

ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

your dns servers should be set up in /etc/resolv.conf:

Koenpje · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 128

Koenpje · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 128

ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

Jubenvi's option in short without restarting services:

route add default gw <gateway>

that's what the entry in conf.d/net does at starting the network scripts.

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Koenpje · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 128

WTF

I typed:

route add default gw $192.168.1.1

But you need to do it without the "$", but at the guide there is "$" sign :evil:

Koenpje · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 128

Pff I can ping site's now, but when I want to emerge some program's, he wants to connect to ftp's but none of them work :cry:

Failed: address family not supported by protocol

That's the error I get after each attemp to download from a ftp, and the last site is: www.hardeman.nu and then I get the error: Failed: conection refused

Headrush · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject:

Are you positive "Packet Socket" option is compiled into kernel or you have the kernel module af_packet loaded?

I had a similar problem when I used DHCP when that option wasn't included.