[Cialug] Network setup for linux server

[Tom Sellers]

You were correct.  There was no resolv.conf file in the /etc/ directory.  I created one with that name and now I can ping by name although the response seems a little slow at times.  The file may not have been there because I did not have the server connected to my network when I installed the operating system.
 
Thanks to everyone for their responses!

From: Charles Dunbar <ccdunbar at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Network setup for linux server

If you can't ping by name, I'd look into the /etc/resolv.conf file,
that's where you set the DNS servers:

It's a simple text file with the format:

nameserver ip.ad.dr.ess
nameserver ip.ad.dr.ess

Can't remember if you need to restart the networking service or not
after changing the file, but it couldn't hurt.

Charles

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.  Obviously I have skipped
> over something int the network setup.  Can anyone help me out?
>
> Remember, I am relatively new to using linux so doing all this command line
> setup is new to me.
>
> Thanks!
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