Re: [TCLUG:21561] Name resolution not working

[Clay Fandre <clay@fandre.com>]

Mandar Vaze wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and my Name resolution
> is not working. I have uswest DSL service, so I have
> the primary/secondary nameservers' IP address in
> my /etc/resolve.conf My problem is when I do nslookup,
> 

It should be /etc/resolv.conf, NOT /etc/resolve.conf.

> it says
> "Can't find server name for <ip-addr of primary>"
> "Can't find server name for <ip-addr of secondary>"
> "No response from default servers"

Can you ping the IP addresses of your name servers?

Try
root# nslookup - <ip-addr of primary nameserver>

> 
> I understand that apart from nameserver entries, I
> need to put 2 more entires in /etc/resolv.conf,
> domain and search. But since my machine is not visible
> from internet (Its DHCP assigned  IP address is
> 10.0.0.2) I'm not sure what domain and search values
> to put there.

Domain and search are not required.

> 
> Do I *have* to run local nameserver (named) in this
> case ?

No.