*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/23/2003 at 9:56 AM rebel indian wrote: >hi there, >its there, I have checked. >How come my DNS service is not working.................... >Someone Please helpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp >Thx > >PS: If i don find a solution, I am thinking to install red hat 8 now on >this 9. Will i loose all my previous data? >when I upgraded 7.3 to 9 I did nt loose anything but will I now loose? > > >Rebel a Student :) > snip as previously suggested, it might be that your eth is getting the information pushed to it by the DHCP server, which is a common practice. if you can use one of your other machines to determine your DNS server address, then there must be a setting somewhere that will allow you to specify your DNS server manually. i can do this here, but i'm in a lab work, so i have access to the DNS servers' addresses. also, it might be worth mentioning, that if you make manual edits to these conf files, then later use the corresponding redhat-config-xyz tool to make addtional changes, your files will overwritten, and the manual changes you did will be wiped out. i had to uninstall these tools from my server so i could have full control over my httpd.conf and dhcpd.conf files, among others. regards, shane
