[Tfug] Dynamic DNS and Qwest?

[Joel Howard]

Ken Fancher wrote:
> Your running slackware right? If so run netconfig in cli itll bring up a
> dialog where you set your card and dhcp/static ip settings depending on
> which you want to do personally id say just go dhcp and it should bring
> you up at boot
and hey that worked in getting me back to their configuration gateway
(192.168.0.1). Wonder why it didn't "stick" from previous configuring,
or what I did to cause it to go away. Thanks.
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
> Joel Howard
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:07 PM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Dynamic DNS and Qwest?
>
> 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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