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Tony Bazeley wrote: | 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
Are the machines in a domain called HOME? The "dnsdomainname" command without any parameters will tell you this. Either replace "HOME" with the result of dnsdomainname or simply remove it, leaving "search" on a line by itself.
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Thanks very much to everyone for their responses.
As it turned out the problem was the first line in /etc/resolv.conf
search HOMEwhich I've changed to simply "search" which now works well.
However I noticed that although HOME is returned by dnsdomainname on my machine as noted by Andy it seems that it is not recognised properly by the resolver.
Yet if I change the domain name to DEMILY in /etc/hosts then "search DEMILY" in resolv.conf works successfully.
It seems there is something significant about the domain name HOME.
Cheers And thanks again Tony Bazeley
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