DNS query

[Tony Bazeley]

Hello all,

I have three machines using a static ip assignment
        1. running smoothwall  as a net gateway (192.168.1.1)
        2. XPpro
        3 debian woody
debian woody can ping the outside world using numeric addresses but is 
unable to resolve names, whereas the XP machine can do both.

On the debian machine I have set up the gateway in /etc/network/interfaces

and pointed to the name server by changing /etc/resolv.conf to
        search HOME
        nameserver 192.168.1.1
and that the name server is used by checking that /etc/nsswitch contains 
the entry
	hosts: files dns

From my rather bleary-eyed reading of the Network Admin guide at this time 
of night it should work - but it doesn't.
Have I missed something?

TIA
Tony Bazeley
        


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