[plug] Ubuntu 6.06 installation/address resolution - update.

[Dave Dartnall]

Timothy White wrote:
> On 1/15/07, Dave Dartnall <darts at dialix.com.au> wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> What have I missed?
>
> This does all sound like a DNS issue.
>
> But, I assume you have checked the the ip address it's given. What is
> it given under Windows and Mandrake?
Same one, 192.168.1.1
>
> I'm not sure if you provided the following last time you posted, can
> you provide them for us to have a peak at?
>
> The output of 'ifconfig' 

MANDRIVA:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:52:9C:8F
          inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:24018 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:70157 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:23979464 (22.8 MiB)  TX bytes:5088546 (4.8 MiB)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd400

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:16860 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16860 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2151272 (2.0 MiB)  TX bytes:2151272 (2.0 Mi

UBUNTU:
  eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:52:9C:8F
            inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
            inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fe52:9c8f/64 Scope:Link
            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
            RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
            RX bytes:1538 (1.5 KiB)  TX bytes:1818 (1.7 KiB)
            Interrupt:177 Base address:0xd400

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
            RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
            RX bytes:272 (272.0 b)  TX bytes:272 (272.0

> The output of 'route'

MANDRIVA:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     20     0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    20     0        0 eth0

UBUNTU:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
default         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

> The contents of /etc/resolv.conf 

MANDRIVA:
nameserver 192.168.1.1

UBUNTU:
nameserver 192.168.1.1

> and /etc/network/interfaces

No such file on Mandriva - I'm sending this under
Mandriva because I can't use Evolution.

UBUNTU:
  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback

  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet dhcp

  auto eth1
  iface eth1 inet dhcp

  auto eth2
  iface eth2 inet dhcp

  auto ath0
  iface ath0 inet dhcp

  auto wlan0
  iface wlan0 inet dhcp

Thank you Tim, hope that helps
In response to Tomasz, my wife's XP system no longer has hard coded dns 
addresses and still works. I have no idea how that came to be initially.
Thanks to all who responded...

Dave