DNS not working

[georgebrough]

Hi,

I've set up static IP by following the details here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_Network#For_Static_IP now my Arch Linux ARM install can't resolve domain names. I can ping my router, other machines on the LAN and a google IP address. If i try to ping www.google.com it say's unknown host.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

George

[pepedog]

Look at file /etc/resolve.conf
Does it mention resolve.conf.footer ?
Create that file and put name servers there

[georgebrough]

Hi,

/etc/resolv.conf looks like this

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# Generated by dhcpcd
# /etc/resolv.conf.head can replace this line
# /etc/resolv.conf.tail can replace this line
')

[pepedog]

OK, I was lazy, create /etc/resolv.conf.tail and put the nameserver(s) there
touch /etc/resolv.conf.tail
nano /etc/resolv.conf.tail

[georgebrough]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I created the file and input the ip of my router to the file (don't know if it needs any formatting?). I edited resolve.conf so that the only uncommented line read "/etc/resolv.conf.tail". I restarted the network and still I can't ping google or run any updates.

[pepedog]

Maybe try putting in your ISP nameservers.
You didn't need to edit resolve.conf, comment that line out again. Possibly resolve.conf was regenerated anyway, hence using the tail file.

Instead of rebooting, try
/etc/rc.d/network restart

[georgebrough]

Thanks for your help

After playing around with those two files I found that if I deleted everything out of them both and ran "/etc/rc.d/network restart" it would regen the resolv.conf file and establish the DNS for it's self.

Cheers

George

[georgebrough]

In case anyone finds the post in the future....

After a reboot it lost the DNS's it had found, so after a bit of playing around I found that if I put "nameserver 192.168.x.x" or "nameserver 8.8.8.8" in to resolve.conf it would work (replace 192.168.x.x with the default gateway/router IP, all the 8's is the google DNS)

[pepedog]

That is the point of the tail file, it doesn't get overwritten