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Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,602
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Not sure what you mean by a DNS client... If you mean where do you specify your nameservers then the answer is put
Code:
nameserver ip.address
in /etc/resolv.conf.
For the dhcp client do the following.
Red Hat:
1) Remove HOSTNAME and GATEWAY entries from etc/sysconfig/network (if they are there).
2) Set BOOTPROTO=dhcp in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
Debian:
Last time I checked you didn't have to do anything because the dhcpcd package installs it's startup script as /etc/init.d/dhcpcd, and links this to the various /etc/rc?.d/ directories.
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,602
Rep:
You can't ping the hostname of what computer? If you are talking about the DNS server that makes sense. You can't resolve names until you have DNS setup
Just put the word nameserver followed by the ip address of the nameserver in /etc/resolv.
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