On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:23, Alexey wrote: > There is a dnsutils package in Debian. Is contains some utilities. > Is it a Debian-specific software? > > I can connect to the provider, run pppd. There appears resolv.conf with > "nameserver..." lines. I can ping those servers, and it's possible to > browse www pages like this: "http://194.180.244.2/index.htm". > How to enable domain names? What program is responsible for that? > > Thanks. > Alexey.
Make sure something like order hosts, bind appear in /etc/hosts.conf Are those dns servers really dns servers? try... dig @dnsserverip www.google.com where dnsserverip is the ip number in /etc/resolv.conf Any response? Crispin