[LUNI] network problem in RH9

[Keith T. Garner]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:35:18, Demetri Mouratis said:
> On 10 Jun 2003, Andrew Morrison wrote:
> > A laptop I'm working on (RedHat 9)has a strange problem.
[snip]
> Well, check your /etc/resolv.conf on the RH9 box to see how it is supposed
> to resolve dns names.  Make sure you can ping the DNS server(s) listed in
> resolv.conf.
> 
> Some DCHP client/server configurations will populate that field for you,
> some won't.

In RH9, the topic of Andrew's question, this is controlled by a
checkbox in the network device setup.  "Automatically optain IP
address settings with dhcp" vs "Statically set IP Addresses"

Keith

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   Keith T. Garner                                        kgarner at kgarner.com
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