Topic: ADSL/DNS Question?

[Tim Haynes]

I successfully configured an e-smith server to work with BT's ADSL - it was very straight forward and worked without any problems.

The server was configured with a static IP address on the external NIC, a subnet mask and a default gateway (as per the e-smith configuration utility)  - however no DNS servers for the external NIC are entered - so where does it get name resolution from for the internet connection??

[Alejandro]

Try www.dns2go.com
it works very good for me

[Kai]

I had similar experience where my ADSL provider does not seem to provide DNS info thru DHCP, I'm not sure it's because it's not possible in ADSL or simply just they don't do it.

But I managed to work out the solution, I've got the DNS server IP from the provider, unlike the IP, they are static most of the time, and inside the /etc/resolv.conf file, I put in the lines

NAMESERVER IP.OF.PRIMARY.NAMESERVER
NAMESERVER IP.OF.SECONDARY.NAMESERVER

Then everythings are fine.