Re: Laptop Connects to WAP, But Cannot Access 'Net

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oopsie. I left a couple of things out, sort of ;) see below...

On 03/26/2012 05:47 PM, Bradley D. Thornton wrote:
> 
> 
> PING gw (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

In case you were wondering, something akin to the following is in my
/etc/hosts  ;)

<code>
192.168.1.1 gw gateway gloryhole whatev-hostname-you-want
</code>


> <code>
> # echo 8.8.8.8 gnds >> /etc/hosts
> # ping gdns
> </code>

obviously, that's a typo in the echo command. it should have been
'gdns'. All you're doing here is making it possible to ping the DNS
server with any hostname you want assign it with. It would be just as
simple (and more clinical), to do the ping and dig as follows:

<code>
# ping -c1 8.8.8.8
# dig @8.8.8.8 ibm.com a
</code>

putting the 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' in your /etc/resolv.conf simply means
that you can omit the '@8.8.8.8' or '@gdns' in your invocation of dig.

use whichever floats your boat :)

Sorry about any confusion that may have caused :(

Kindest regards,


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Manager Network Services
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