[TriLUG] RR Setup

Mark Fowle mark at thefowles.com
Sun Jul 21 19:54:58 EDT 2002


I tried the one that is assigned vi the dhcp - but it didn't resolv
anything - I changed it to have the two I used with earthlink, and one
from Hostway -  This is seems to be working for me now. I still have the
3 they gave me in my list -

Mark

On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 17:51, Ben Pitzer wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> Actually, you should be served your DNS servers via DHCP.  I used it for
> a long time with my RH 6.2 and later with my Debian machines.  Since I'm
> one of the admins now, though, and occasionally might need to work from
> home in the event of a DNS problem, I've diversified my range of DNS
> hosts in /etc/resolv.conf.  Incidentally, what DNS server IPs were you
> using previously?
> 
> Regards,
> Ben Pitzer
> 
> On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 14:29, Mark Fowle wrote:
> > Well - I finally got my cable modem up and running. I called Tech
> > Support this morning and they told me the modem wasn't initialized on
> > their end - once they did everything fell into place. I did have to use
> > another DNS server though - all 3 of the ones I had for TWC didn't seem
> > to work - but at least its running -
> > 
> > Thanks for all the help!
> > 
> > mark
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 20:39, Thunder Bear wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 08:31 PM, Mark Fowle wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Has anyone setup an RR connection?
> > > 
> > > Several, actually.
> > > 
> > > > I really need help, I think I've
> > > > become brain dead. I thought all I would have to do is a straight DHCP
> > > > connection, I'd get my IP, it would update my resolv.conf file and
> > > > viola, my network would be running. Right now I am using DSL (from
> > > > Sprint) - I know that I don't have to do the pppoe configuration -  When
> > > > I set it up - it gets an address (a 192.168.100.X), the resolv.conf file
> > > > gets created (192.168.100.1) and thats it - If I try to ping a 100.1 it
> > > > works, if I try to ping any other ip's it tells me that the network
> > > > isn't running - What did I miss?
> > > >
> > > 
> > > If you are getting that IP, then you don't have a good signal upstream 
> > > methinks.  I was having that problem too until they fixed a physical 
> > > problem with the line and then it worked.
> > > 
> > > That's the IP address you get from the cable modem if it cannot see 
> > > upstream.
> > > 
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