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1. Very precise brief & 100% helpful

   Thanks!!

2. This is quite useful when you have DSL or dial up connection and would like to setup dns quickly under Linux. Or even when you can’t browse site on net using domain name but you can browse them (ping them) using the ip-address. This solved my problem as well as Temporary failure in name resolution (which can be caused by ssh, telnet or mail client etc) To browse Internet one need to configure the DNS properly. Thanks for this tiny post.

3. Thnx helped me 🙂

4. hi;

   Im having problem with DNS where it unable to lookup the dns that i have setupd. i have configured my hosts file and resolve.conf but stil not solving my problem. i have statis dns ip from ISP and currently using fedora8. any1 having problem with dns with fc8. i cant surf the internet.it takes long time to resolve suspect that it getting dns from my router. where it not resolving it from what i have edited in the machine. request is tooo slow. anything that could help to solve? need help. i have checked all my setting everything is fine.

5. I need Dhcp ip router in Fc8
   anyone here experience of that?

6. Hi,
   I’ve setup the internet connection through PPP dial up and able to get the public IP assigned to me. Also I’ve configured the DNS server address in the /etc/resolv.conf file.
   The problem is, I’m able to ping to my ISP’s IP and also to any public IP addresses, but not to any domain names.
   ping http://www.google.com, always fails saying unknown host, but at the same time nslookup and dig work fine(able to resove IP from domain name).
   What may be the problem?, please do help, Thanks in advance,

   –Ganesh

7. try ping google.com

8. Thanks a bunch!

   I was just looking for this.

9. domain configer redhate server to clint pc

10. thanks for the guides, was looking for this

11. how i can config host file

12. i cant add GW address in eth0, how to i add it , plz give me command,

13. for redhat linux, im able to ping the ip address from the client side but not the server name .. i type “neat” and under the tab hosts, i put my address as 123.0.0.5 and hostname as funnybone.123.com but im unable to, mind helping out? thx

14. hi! i m doing a project on redhat linux 5.3.. my project requires me to setup a dns master server on the server computer. and a client computer have to ping the server and itself by hostname. i m able to use the client computer to ping server computer by hostname and ip. but the client can’t ping itself by hostname. may i know wat is the problem? do i nid to install bind in the client computer as well?
    thanks and regards.

15. use this command to add a default gateway to your server,
    route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth0

16. It is very understandable information, And thanks for guiding me.

17. You might want to consider adding OpenDNS servers too.

    And if you run any Debian based distribution, try to install the package resolveconf “aptitude install resloveconf” and this will be solved for most parts (dhcpclients) and you add your dns servers in network configuration file /etc/network/interfaces

18. i’ve setup dns server on rhel5 and working. clinets are pinging by ip not by name. my server pinging itself by name.
    please help me

19. good I was looking for such type of articals really.

20. i know my proxy server ip and i put it in the resolve.conf file like explained above

    nameserver xxx.xxx.x.xx

    however when i do dig http://www.google.com it gives me

    ; <> DiG 9.2.4 <> http://www.google.com
    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

    I even tried adding the proxy=xxx.xxx.x.xx: to my yum.conf file

    Still getting the same error.. Please suggest

21. This solved the problem temporariliy, but everytime i reboot my system, resolv.conf is set back to its original state. How can i make this change permanent?

    1. See, How To: Make Sure /etc/resolv.conf Never Get Updated By DHCP Client

22. Thanks for the help..

23. great instructions.. 100% accurate.

24. Good Information. Helped me in resolving one of critical issue.

25. hey,
    i do appreciate for what your doing to us.
    i have problem with how to set up dns server using linux in my laptop

26. Hello.
    I am just wondering. Setting up my first web server to run my website.
    I got a domain name paid for and a dns thing from them.
    Do i just plug this in the resolv.conf file?
    I guess my question would be what does the resolve file look like when we are getting a domain name and dns from some company online in order to make our server public?

    1. Sorry but wanted to add another question.
       What about IP address do I just pick one out of the air? or set it do Dynamic?
       Right now I got my server working in lan as a local server for testing but would like to connect it to the web for my website so hard finding help for this set up. Usually everything is for local server setup.

27. please submit more information about dns configuratio and aleternet dns

    1. I got it working thanks. with inadyn setup as the dns part.
       I decided to avoid the security issues I would have as a beginner with setting up my own dns server at home.
       Thank you for this site. I learned the most important lesson I think which is I am still a beginner and I should take it one step at a time.

28. why cant i edit my resolv.conf file?

    1. you might not have the write permission. issue this command ‘ls -lrt’ you should see at least something like this ‘-rw-r–r– ‘

29. hi

    anyone can help me create dns server in redhat linux.

30. Dear sir,

    I have installed two linux (os) & on each OS oracle11g installed on the vmware and now configuring the server and client on linux, And also two databases are created on each OS.

    Now i want to configure the client/server but i am not able to connect due to proper ping,IP & host name, so kinly give me the proper steps with connection scripts.

    thanks & Regards
    Dinesh

31. Dear Sir

    I am having problwm with Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 about Configuring it as a internet server
    I want to use RHEL 4 as a server and windows XP Systems as a clients for sharing internet among them ,

    Pls assist me about doing the same

    thanking you

    sanjay mahajan

32. how do i install dns in linux?
    please leave da comment?

    thanks for helping…

33. but over the selinux and firewall…

34. This does not work on Fedora 13. If you try to edit resolv.conf NetworkManager will overwrite it on restart.

35. I configure DNS server by linux………….how i add or login from xp client

36. Short and upto the mark. Appreciate it!!!

37. #hostname
    light
    #donainname
    (none)
    #dnsdomainname
    mylinux.com

    nameserver 10.10.10.9

    what should be instead of “isp.com” in
    “search isp.com” as according to my system.
    and what if i use
    “domain” instead of “search” in /etc/resolv.conf file

38. error in configuration file that is /etc/named.conf unknown option 1 {option}

39. this site gave me a lot of informations…..very helpful one…..thanks a lot…..

40. Great info tnx to creators

41. Could you please tell me what is Global DNS server? when is it used? And how is it configured in linux?
    Is it used when you dont define any DNS IP in resov.conf?Where can it be configured?

    Please guide.

42. This also works

    just cancal everything and edit vi /etc/resolv.conf

    add just this:

    nameserver 8.8.8.8
    nameserver 8.8.4.4

43. Can you have more than one domain name?

    Also I am trying to find out what port is uses to send out the resolve connection?

    If you have any ideas for this please let me know!

44. This is a generated file though. Changes should be made in /etc/sysconfig/network with the following line added

    DNS1=

45. Sorry, html left out the part with angle brackets after DNS1=. Here’s an example

    DNS1=8.8.8.8

46. Nothing to say because it’s so simply and easy to understand. Thank you very much. 😉

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