Help with Networking/DNS

mike cullerton yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Apr 17 08:12:00 2002


On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 05:19 AM, Russ Harlan wrote:

> I managed to fumble through the setup and got things working, but 
> here's my problem: the iMac occasionally "loses" it's connection. 
> For instance, it will say "could not resolve" when I am browsing the 
> web, and when I try to ping I get "host unreachable". A restart of 
> the machine resolves the issue temporarily, but after an 
> unspecifiable time it gets "lost" again.
>

russ,

  when you 'lose' your connection, can you ping your router using its 
ip address? what does an 'ifconfig' show when your connection works 
and when it doesn't work?


  -- mike cullerton