Lost ability to connect to Internet on test installation.

[Douglas Furlong]

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 23:15 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Never mind.
> 
> Havoc Pennington reported the problem on the devel list. This was on my 
> 8/22 mail that I downloaded but did not read before rebooting.
> 
> hp - bringing up an interface creates an empty resolv.conf.
>    Writing a correct resolv.conf results in working network,
>    so the dhcp succeeds, resolv.conf is just hosed.
> 
> This is going to stump a lot of people. How is anyone to guess that this 
> sort of problem exists? This is going to result in a lot of reinstalls.

Please don't take this in the wrong way, but resolv.conf is part of the
incredibly basic network configuration. I am surprised that it would
stump so many people who are using a TEST release.

There are some incredibly simple debugging procedures to use for network
connectivity, and the first thing you do is try to contact an IP on your
network, then one off your network, if all that happens, then try and
resolve host names, if that fails you know it is related to DNS. It
should only take a minute or two to work out the problem, at most.

Doug

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