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medianox
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 Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 3:54 am Post subject: Post-install: Unable to connect to mirrors (no DNS) n00b |
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I just finished installing gentoo 2.6.10r6 on an x86 machine. I followed the manual to a 'T' and learned a few things. After unmounting the livecd and rebooting, grub loaded a whole bunch of stuff, I logged in under the user i created (not root), and I tried to 'emerge xorg'. Apparently, I've lost my ability to access the internet as all the mirrors were timing out. I tried to ping google to no avail. Perhaps it is DNS? Perhaps I need to reconfigure my host (rightnow its just localhost)? I am running the genkernel.
I realize I may be leaving out information you may need to help me. If so, please tell me what you want and where I might find it, as I'm completely new to this -- still it's extremely gratifying to actually *work* for an OS.
Thank you in advance for your time,
Taylor
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lspci:
| Quote: | Host Bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host Bridge
PCI Bridge : Same as above ^^^ AGP Bridge
ISA BRidge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
USB: Same as ISA
Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
Enternet ctrlr: 3Com Corp. 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
VGA: nVidia Corp NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] |
ifconfig:
| Quote: | eth0
Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:Da:d7:73:2e
inet addr: 192.168.0.2 Bcast: 192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1
RX packets:196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:85 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes 23268 (22.7kb) TX bytes: 5100 (4.9kb)
Interrupt: 10 Base address:0xd000
lo
Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX oackets: 28 er:0 dr:0 ovr:0 frame:0
TX packers: 28 er:0 dr:0 ovr:0 carrier:0
coll:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2716 (2.6kb) TXbytes:2716 (2.6kb) |
lsmod:
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Mod Size Usedby
parport_pc 29380 0
parport 30644 1 parport_pc
3c59x 35624 0
intel_agp 18716 1
agpgart 27432 1 intel_agp
dm_mod 0
sbp2 0
ohci1394 0
ieee1394 2 sbp2,ohci1394
ohci_hcd 0
uhci_hcd 0
usb_storage 0
usbhid 0
ehci_hcd 0
usbcore 6 ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd
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Tahoe_Strider
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Are you running DHCP? If not, did you set your gateway in /etc/conf.d/net? should look something like this:
gateway="eth0/192.168.0.1"
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Tahoe_Strider
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Also, an easy way to see if it's a DNS issue see if you can ping a public IP address. If you can, you're obviously able to "get out" through your gateway. Then, try to ping something simple like "www.google.com"...If you can't, you're not resolving and it would be DNS.
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medianox
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:30 am Post subject: thanks for the response |
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I went ahead and changed my /etc/conf.d/net to reflect DHCP but I notice on startup GRUB tells me i haven't set a valid hostname. What file contains this and shoudl I just put localhost in there?
furthermore, how do I change my DNS servers? Aren't those assigned by my ISP and on their end? |
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medianox
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:42 am Post subject: Solved! |
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I change my /etc/conf.d/net to grab the daminname and host information from my network: "-HD"
thanks for the reply - appreciate the help!
-Taylor |
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