[ale] Linspire 5.0 Internet Connection

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:09 -0500, Roger Hammons wrote:
> Yes, I think it is a DNS issue (doh!).
> 
> While connected I was able to ping an IP address (as `12.65.4.39')
> but NOT a name (as 'www.yahoo.com').
> 
> SOMEWHERE in Linspire I saw references to identifying a DNS (via some
> setup wizard which I didn't use) if necessary(?).  I thought the ISP 
> always provided DNS service automatically, I've never had to do anything 
> about it before.  Apparently that's NOT happening in this case.  And I 
> haven't been able to re-find what I think I read earlier.
> 
> 
> Thanks to you I think that's the problem, but I'm still stuck.  Any
> more ideas?

You could edit /etc/resolv.conf and put this in it:

   nameserver 4.2.2.4
   nameserver 4.2.2.3


Those are the IPs of Level 3's public facing DNS servers.

-Jim P.