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127 views

No DNS on Debian wifi after unplugging the DNS cable

I have installed wheezy Release Candidate 1 to my old laptop (Benq Joybook A52) right now, and I have some problem with my wireless card (Atheros 5006). It can actually see the wireless networks, I ...
2
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1answer
96 views

Incoming/Outgoing seperation for VPN

My situation is that I want all my outgoing connections from my Debian server to pass through a commercial VPN service I've subscribed to, but I still want to run public-accessible services on this ...
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1answer
370 views

How do I make a registered domain name resolve to a local/private IP address

I have a Debian Linux server running on my local network. I also have port forwarding set up on my router so that computers outside my network can use my domain name and get to my website/FTP/SSH ...
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2answers
141 views

bind9named binary missing - not starting

I have just compiles and installed BIND 9.9.1-P1 on Debian 6.0 as the version in the repositories is too old for Samba4, and am getting the said error. I have been looking for source for named, but ...
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2answers
257 views

Force usage of DNS server provided by DHCP?

I got a preconfigured debian image that gets it's network configuration by DHCP, however the DNS server is/was fixed to 8.8.8.8. This was configured using /etc/resolv.conf, so I deleted all the ...
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2answers
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debian, problem with DNS

When I type in "google.com," firefox tells me that the server is not found. When I type in the IP address of google, it works just fine. I was playing with this computer at another place and it ...
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0answers
66 views

Strange DNS problem with Debian on an IA64 architecture machine [closed]

I installed Debian 6.0.4 squeeze on my IA64 HP server, I noticed from the get go that I could not ping hosts using DNS, and thus I sought to edit the /etc/resolve.conf file. I changed the server's ...
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3answers
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Reverse DNS lookups slowing down network operations on LAN

Environment My LAN setup is quite basic: A router connected to the ISP's modem and the internet My development pc directly connected to the router The router provides DHCP but does not run its ...
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2answers
725 views

Domain resolve problem with stock Debian

I have a simple install with Debian as a guest in Virtualbox. I installed the resolvconf package. The resolv.conf file is this: # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by ...
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4answers
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/etc/resolv.conf changes during reboot

My ISP asked me to use custom nameserver settings. I have placed these in /etc/resolv.conf. Unfortunately, every time I reboot the computer, the contents of this file is changed. To connect to the ...
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3answers
4k views

What DNS servers am I using?

How can I check which DNS server am I using (in Linux)? I am using network manager and a wired connection to my university's LAN. (I am trying to find out why my domain doesn't get resolved)
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4answers
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How to overcome libc resolver limitation of maximum 3 nameservers?

Suppose I work in environment with number of domain changes and slow propagation. I want to test domain configuration immediately after setting change but the propagation is slow. So I want to add ...
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1answer
190 views

How do I use the OpenDNS servers for wlan0 in Aptosid?

How do I use the OpenDNS servers for wireless networks in Aptosid? All the methods I've found are either specific to other distros, specific to eth0 or they just don't work with Aptosid or wpa_gui.