Hi Folks, First, I hope that those of you who went out for the Christmas meal had a good one!
Now: I've just been giving a wee whirl to an Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") live CD (from the Jan 2010 Linux Magazine). I was puzzled to find that the (Gnome) interface does not seem to offer any way of setting the DNS server. I let it use DHCP from my router (which duly gave out an IP address), and I'm able to access other machines on my home LAN. However, if I'm to try it out on the WWW I need to set a DNS server IP.
With the Debian Lenny which is already installed on the same machine, I get the Gnome desktop and if I click on
System --> Administration --> Network [brings up "Network Settings" window] --> Connections --> Wired Connections I can then set the DNS via the "DNS" tab.
However, once the Ubuntu Live CD has finished booting up I again get the Gnome desktop, but this time if I try to click as abve I get
System --> Administration [and now no "Network" but only]: --> Network Tools
from which it seems I can only see a listing of device properties, and choose from the basic networn tools like ping, traceroute, etc. Nothing that I can see which has to do with settings.
If I look under
System --> Preferences --> Network Connections [choose "eth0" and "Edit"] --> IPV4 Settings
and there is no apparent provision to set the DNS IP.
Of course I can work round it "by hand" by simply editing /etc/resolv.conf, but I'm surprised that the allegedly user-friendly Ubuntu doesn't give me an easy interface to do it!
Or maybe Ubuntu is trying to make it too easy -- could it have something to do with being on DHCP (and the router not coming up with a DNS IP -- all my other machines being on static setup)? Even so, it should still allow me to over-ride a DNS IP from DHCP (if any) by direct configuration.
So I'm puzzled, but maybe others are not and can put me right! Thanks, Ted.
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On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:47:15PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
If I look under
System --> Preferences --> Network Connections [choose "eth0" and "Edit"] --> IPV4 Settings
and there is no apparent provision to set the DNS IP.
Hi Ted,
You're /nearly/ there, once in that menu box you then select the dropdown labelled "method" and choose :
"automatic (DHCP) addresses only"
and you can then set dns servers in the box on the screen.
Thanks Adam
On 13-Dec-09 00:55:54, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:47:15PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
If I look under
System --> Preferences --> Network Connections [choose "eth0" and "Edit"] --> IPV4 Settings
and there is no apparent provision to set the DNS IP.
Hi Ted,
You're /nearly/ there, once in that menu box you then select the dropdown labelled "method" and choose :
"automatic (DHCP) addresses only"
and you can then set dns servers in the box on the screen.
Thanks Adam --
Thanks, Adam, that worked fine! (Amazing how easy it is to find, once you know where to look ... ).
And thanks, John, for the "sudo network-admin" suggestion. I'll look further into that.
Ted.
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