On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:58:17AM +1000, Lyall Ward wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am just learning how things work in debian and have come across a > > problem. There is no resolv.conf. I have tried just creating it and while > > this fixes the problem of the file not being there, nothing seems to use > > it(Eg I still have to ping by IP address and nslookup thinks the default > > namserver is 0.0.0.0). The file I created is world readable. > > > what have you put in resolv.conf ? > Have you configured the nameserver ?
I just checked and my nameserver entry was off by one character. Sorry to have bugged you over this, I was sure I had checked the file was correct. All is working now. Lyall.
