Name resolution

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 00:19:18 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 18:56 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> > nameserver 1.2 3.4
> >
> > then try:
> >
> > $ dig @1.2.3.4 mit.edu
> >
> > Do the same on your other machines. Are they all using the same
> > nameserver?
> >
> > poc
> >
> Yes i mean my router's ip.
> 
> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> # Generated by NetworkManager
> domain home
> search home
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
> 
> $ dig @1.2.3.4 mit.edu

Seriously? You're supposed to use the value for nameserver in
the /etc/resolv.conf file, not literally 1.2.3.4. Wasn't that obvious
from the example?

poc



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