[gentoo-user] What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

[gentoo-user] What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

[David Juhl]

What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers?  I can't
seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot.

Thanks,
David

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

[Roy Wright]

On Sep 26, 2009, at 3:11 PM, David Juhl wrote:

> What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers?  I can't
> seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot.
>

grep -i dns /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example

The short answer is something like:

dns_servers_eth0="192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3"

HTH,
Roy

[gentoo-user] Re: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/26/2009 11:11 PM, David Juhl wrote:
> What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers?  I can't
> seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot.

Depends on how you connect.  If you're behind a router/gateway device 
that does NAT (this includes most "DSL modems"), you use the device's IP 
as nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf as well as routes_ethN in 
/etc/conf.d/net.  For example, if your router's IP is 192.168.1.1, you 
use this in /etc/resolv.conf:

   nameserver 192.168.1.1

And this in /etc/conf.d/net:

   routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

[David Juhl]

I feel like a idiot....  my device isn't eth0 it is wlan0 and defined it
as such... No wonder I didn't catch it...

Thanks

David
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 04:22 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 09/26/2009 11:11 PM, David Juhl wrote:
> > What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers?  I can't
> > seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot.
> 
> Depends on how you connect.  If you're behind a router/gateway device 
> that does NAT (this includes most "DSL modems"), you use the device's IP 
> as nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf as well as routes_ethN in 
> /etc/conf.d/net.  For example, if your router's IP is 192.168.1.1, you 
> use this in /etc/resolv.conf:
> 
>    nameserver 192.168.1.1
> 
> And this in /etc/conf.d/net:
> 
>    routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1"
> 
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

[David Juhl]

I don't use openrc but thank you.

David
On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 20:16 -0500, Roy Wright wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2009, at 3:11 PM, David Juhl wrote:
> 
> > What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers?  I can't
> > seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot.
> >
> 
> grep -i dns /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example
> 
> The short answer is something like:
> 
> dns_servers_eth0="192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3"
> 
> HTH,
> Roy
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

[David Juhl]

It added the route but didn't add anything as far as nameservers are
concerned....  Why?

David

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 21:08 -0500, David Juhl wrote:
> I feel like a idiot....  my device isn't eth0 it is wlan0 and defined it
> as such... No wonder I didn't catch it...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 04:22 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > On 09/26/2009 11:11 PM, David Juhl wrote:
> > > What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers?  I can't
> > > seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot.
> > 
> > Depends on how you connect.  If you're behind a router/gateway device 
> > that does NAT (this includes most "DSL modems"), you use the device's IP 
> > as nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf as well as routes_ethN in 
> > /etc/conf.d/net.  For example, if your router's IP is 192.168.1.1, you 
> > use this in /etc/resolv.conf:
> > 
> >    nameserver 192.168.1.1
> > 
> > And this in /etc/conf.d/net:
> > 
> >    routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1"
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

[gentoo-user] Re: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

[walt]

On 09/27/2009 06:45 AM, David Juhl wrote:
> It added the route but didn't add anything as far as nameservers are
> concerned....  Why?

What is 'it'?  I use dhclient to get the gateway and nameserver
addresses from my DSL modem:

$cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by dhclient for interface eth0
nameserver 192.168.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

[Stroller]

On 27 Sep 2009, at 02:22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 09/26/2009 11:11 PM, David Juhl wrote:
>> What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers?  I  
>> can't
>> seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot.
>
> Depends on how you connect.  If you're behind a router/gateway  
> device that does NAT (this includes most "DSL modems"), you use the  
> device's IP as nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf as well as routes_ethN  
> in /etc/conf.d/net.  For example, if your router's IP is  
> 192.168.1.1, you use this in /etc/resolv.conf:
>
>  nameserver 192.168.1.1
>
> And this in /etc/conf.d/net:
>
>  routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1"

Except the route & the gateway are completely different things. They  
_might_ happen to share an IP. They might not.

The OP asked how one specifies nameservers in "/etc/conf.d/net".

   dns_servers=( "208.67.222.222" "208.67.220.220" )

might work, but it is properly and *clearly* discussed in "/etc/conf.d/ 
net.example".

I am unable to reply to David's most recent post because he's made  
such an unslightly mess of quoting. However it seems to me that  
bringing routes into your reply has only  confused matters.

Stroller.

[gentoo-user] Re: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/27/2009 04:45 PM, David Juhl wrote:
> It added the route but didn't add anything as far as nameservers are
> concerned....  Why?
>

What works and what doesn't?  Can you ping IPs?

   ping 74.125.45.100

If yes, you have connectivity and the route works.  If it was actually 
working even before you added the "routes_eth0" setting in 
/etc/conf.d/net, then the route is not the problem and that setting is 
not needed in your case.

Can you ping domain names?

   ping google.com

If yes, DNS works.  If not, the IP in /etc/resolv.conf is wrong. 
Specifying it in conf.d/net instead of resolv.conf doesn't help if it's 
just the wrong IP.  Usually it's the router's IP though.  So if it 
doesn't work, you might try to use your ISP's DNS directly.  You can 
either phone them, or search at their homepage for info, or Google 
"ISP_Name DNS" and start from there.


> David
>
> On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 21:08 -0500, David Juhl wrote:
>> I feel like a idiot....  my device isn't eth0 it is wlan0 and defined it
>> as such... No wonder I didn't catch it...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> David
>> On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 04:22 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> On 09/26/2009 11:11 PM, David Juhl wrote:
>>>> What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers?  I can't
>>>> seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot.
>>>
>>> Depends on how you connect.  If you're behind a router/gateway device
>>> that does NAT (this includes most "DSL modems"), you use the device's IP
>>> as nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf as well as routes_ethN in
>>> /etc/conf.d/net.  For example, if your router's IP is 192.168.1.1, you
>>> use this in /etc/resolv.conf:
>>>
>>>     nameserver 192.168.1.1
>>>
>>> And this in /etc/conf.d/net:
>>>
>>>     routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1"