From: Moe Trin on
On Sun, 04 May 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in
article <fvj135$s5q$1(a)aioe.org>, David Shen wrote:

>Bill Marcum wrote:
>> On 2008-05-03, David Shen <davidshen84(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> My /etc/resolv.conf file looks like this:
>>>
>>> search my.corp.domain.com

You may want to look at 'man 5 resolver' to see if that line is really
useful. Depending on the situation, this can be a security problem.

>>> nameserver ip1
>>> nameserver ip2
>>> nameserver ip3
>>>
>>> I compared the IPs and the domain name with what was get from one of
>>> my Windows PC, they are the same. So, I think it should work.

From that aspect - yes. The next question might be routing and firewalls.

>> Make sure you can ping at least one of those addresses. You might
>> need a route command.
>
>errr...I cannot ping those DNS server...

Ping uses ICMP packets (DNS normally uses UDP) and has been abused so
much that many block pings in defense.

>I used route -n, and the return look like this:
>12.34.56.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U
>0.0.0.0 12.34.56.1 0.0.0.0 UG

12.34.56.xx is actually 8 different sub-nets from a /29 to a /25, but
assuming the actual values you see are similar, this is ok.

>And I just noticed, I cannot ping any machine now...But I could before.
>I do not remember I changed the machine's configuration.

And the error message is...

1. cables
2. /sbin/ifconfig -a
3. /sbin/iptables -Ln
4. /usr/sbin/traceroute -n 72.14.214.193

Old guy