Hi Ian,
I'll dig further into my setup and see what might cause that. Ii've had
absolutely no problem with my Indy, even go Samba compiled and working.
James
Ian Primus wrote:
> I've tried that, I still can't get anywhere in Netscape, or ping an
> address like www.google.com. My /etc/resolv.conf is about the same,
> only with my ISP's nameserver. I have also gone through the System
> Manager utility several times too. Besides the fact that I can't
> resolve anything from the console, when I start netscape, I get a
> dialog box that says that hosts are unreachable, and says that if I
> must use a non-root name server, I have to set the $SOCKS_NS
> environment variable to point at the name server. I have tried setting
> this manually from the command line, but to no avail. I'm probably
> using the wrong command. My UNIX experience comes from Linux and Mac
> OS X, so I haven't really had a whole lot of practice at stuff like this.
>
> Ian Primus
> ian_primus_at_yahoo.com
>
>
> On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 06:52 PM, James Rice wrote:
>
>> You need to edit your resolv.conf file to something like this:
>>
>> hostresorder local bind
>>
>> domain charter.net
>>
>> nameserver 151.164.1.8
>> nameserver 151.164.11.209
>> nameserver 192.168.1.6
>>
>>
>>
>> If you don't have a resolv.conf file then use nedit to creat one. You
>> may not need three entries. The first two in mine are my ISP's
>> nameserver, the third one is the DNS server on my employers net
>> that I am VPN'ed into so I can administer it from home. This is from
>> my Indy running 6.5.x
>>
>> James
>>
>> Ian Primus wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 12:01 AM, Benjamin Gardiner wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just got myself an Indigo2 R8000.
>>>> and the cool thing is I actually got a copy of IRIX 6.5 with it, I now
>>>> have IRIX media Yay!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Very cool. I have an Indigo2 as well, and I really like it. Mine has
>>> Irix 6.5 installed, but I don't have the media. One thing about it
>>> though, I have not been able to get it up on the network properly. I
>>> have configured it and everything, and told it the DNS address, but
>>> it still can't resolve any URL's. I can go to sites by typing in the
>>> IP address, however, and I can ping the other machines on the
>>> network. I'm sure there is a simple solution, but I haven't found
>>> it. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
>>>
>>> Ian Primus
>>> ian_primus_at_yahoo.com
>>>
>>>
>>
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