From Will at Independent Electric

[Jonne Thompson]

Ed,
I am sending two e-mails as I don't know which one to use. Jonne's Daughter
Stephanie had a brain hemmorage yesterday. She is in Shawnee Mission
Medical Center. I am about the only plan B we have and not a good one at
that.  I would appreciate very much if you could write me or call me here
and let me know the best way to contact you. Jonne has not been able to
reinstall the tape drive in Indelec and we have not backed up since last
year. Jonne will be in no condition to work so I will need your help if
possible as I know she will worry about all this too. My e-mail here is
wb at iemco.com. When you find time would you write or call me? Thanks for
your help Ed.  Will Babbitt

Edgar Allen wrote:

> Darrin  Abend writes:
> >
> >  I've set up a simple network that runs the Sygate NAT on a Window95
> >  machine.  All my other windows clients have no problem using the
> >  Sygate gateway for cable modem internet access.  However, I can't
> >  get my Linux client DNS working properly.  KC-Roadrunner uses DHCP
> >  for the DNS server ip, so it's not a static value that I can set for
> >  the nameserver in linux.  Following the sygate instructions I set
> >  the nameserver & gateway as 192.168.0.1 on the client machine.  The
> >  Linux client can ping the gateway and external numeric addresses,
> >  but I get 'Unknown Host' errors if I use a name address.
>
> >  I've looked at every FAQ and web page that I can find on this and
> >  still no luck.  Has anyone set up this combination and got it
> >  working?  Thanx in advance for any help.
> >
> If you can ping  external addresses then you can reach them and they
> have the proper path to reply to you.
>
> Lets take a quick look:
>
> solar{era}81: nslookup -q=ns kc.rr.com.
> Server:  ns1.sky.net
> Address:  209.90.0.2
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> kc.rr.com       nameserver = ns1.rdc-kc.rr.com
> kc.rr.com       nameserver = ns2.rdc-kc.rr.com
>
> Authoritative answers can be found from:
> ns1.rdc-kc.rr.com       internet address = 24.94.163.32
> ns2.rdc-kc.rr.com       internet address = 24.94.163.33
> solar{era}82:
>
> So enter the IP addresses as your nameservers.  RoadRunner cannot
> change those addresses without affecting an awful lot of machines,
> both internal and external.  They will give lots of warning
> before changing them both.  You can have more than one 'namserver'
> line in your /etc/resolv.conf
>
> I am not at a RedHat system or I would direct you to the exact
> path in 'linuxconf'.  It must be somewhere under 'Network'.
>