Mandar Vaze wrote: > > Hi, > I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and my Name resolution > is not working. I have uswest DSL service, so I have > the primary/secondary nameservers' IP address in > my /etc/resolve.conf My problem is when I do nslookup, > It should be /etc/resolv.conf, NOT /etc/resolve.conf. > it says > "Can't find server name for <ip-addr of primary>" > "Can't find server name for <ip-addr of secondary>" > "No response from default servers" Can you ping the IP addresses of your name servers? Try root# nslookup - <ip-addr of primary nameserver> > > I understand that apart from nameserver entries, I > need to put 2 more entires in /etc/resolv.conf, > domain and search. But since my machine is not visible > from internet (Its DHCP assigned IP address is > 10.0.0.2) I'm not sure what domain and search values > to put there. Domain and search are not required. > > Do I *have* to run local nameserver (named) in this > case ? No. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org