On 15-May-03 Ben Francis wrote:
I have a redhat box here at home with no XWindows running. When I installed redhat it could pretty much automatically connect to my dialup internet connection through my Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing across my home LAN as soon as I plugged it into my hub, I don't know how it does this. I mainly use the box to ssh coonect to other linux shells across the internet.
However, about 1 in 3 boots on the redhat box result in the message "Temporary failure in name resolution" when I attempt to ssh connect. The only way I've been able to find to get it to see the internet is to reboot it. Surely there' must be an easy way of showing it where the internet connection is without having to reboot!
I'd suggest checking the "gateway" and "DNS" settings in the Red Hat network configuration when this happens, and also when it works (though the fact that it's intermittent is puzzling -- but maybe the failure is an shortlived one somewhere between and inclusive of your Windows box and the outside world, and perhaps the reboot simply passes the time while this clears itself!).
While I mention broadband, a slightly off topic question. My local telphone exchange gets ADSL enabled on June 4th but in a couple of months a local company starts "trials" of WiFi internet access based on 802.11g with at least a 10 meg connection for around the same price as ADSL!
Hmm! Where do you live, where will the WiFi hub be, and what do you think its range is likely to be? (Sorry to be asking questions rather than helping with your query -- which I can't, I'm afraid -- but I'm very interested in WiFi possibilities out here in deep Fenland ... ).
Best wishes, Ted.
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