[Tfug] Dynamic DNS and Qwest?

[Joel Howard]

Joel Howard wrote:
> Harry McGregor wrote:
>   
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> Can you ping 192.168.0.1?
>>   
>>     
> No -- you're right - network unreachable and ifconfig shows eth0 and lo
> as down. Funny because I configged eth0 in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 -- IP and
> subnet mask are there, along with dhcp yes. I expected it to run at boot
> -- guess it didn't.
>   
Going back to manually configure eth0 leads to an error when I try to
put in the gateway (192.168.0.1). I get "host name lookup failure". I
thought putting qwest and the IP numbers for their nameservers in my
/etc/resolv.cof solved this, but I guess not.
>   
>> What does ifconfig -a look like?
>>
>>                 Harry
>>
>> Joel Howard wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I guess I'm the one who started all this the other day. Yesterday I had
>>> it all running great -- added qwest's nameserver IPs to my resolv.conf
>>> file, went to their gateway to configure, and even remembered to save
>>> it. I just rebooted a few minutes ago and lost my browser and mail
>>> connections. I can't get back to 192.168.0.1 which I had yesterday.
>>> Lights on the DSL box are all green. I pulled the power plug and
>>> replugged as they recommend but that didn't bring it back. I'm trying to
>>> figure out what I did wrong in configuring right now.
>>> JH
>>>
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