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On 8/31/2011 7:49 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Tom Sellers wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I managed to aquire an older server and have installed Ubuntu 11 on it.
It boots fine and I figured out how to set a manual IP and associated
mask and gateway but I still can't ping anything by name.
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<pre wrap="">You will need to set some name servers, .. if you don't know ones for your
ISP, you can use 8.8.8.8 (Google).
Lee
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<div>Try this, look at the section on editing /etc/resolv.conf :</div>
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BTW, Lee, you might want to remove the reference to canned meat
by-products from the subject before you reply, otherwise some people
will filter that out.<br>
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-dc<br>
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