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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Grandpa returning to UNIX Post 303025483 by hicksd8 on Saturday 3rd of November 2018 12:05:12 PM
Old 11-03-2018
The installer not finding (or configuring) a DNS server is no big deal.

The DNS server(s) address should be configured in
Code:
/etc/resolv.conf

You can edit that file (or create it if it doesn't exist) and put the ip address of your desired DNS server in there.

A directive "nameserver" plus single ip address will suffice, on the first and only line in the file, fully left justified.

For example to use Google's DNS server which is at 8.8.8.8 simply edit your resolv.conf to be like this:

Code:
nameserver 8.8.8.8

and reboot your box.

EDIT: Original post was technically incorrect, edited post to correct my mistake.

Last edited by hicksd8; 11-03-2018 at 05:22 PM.. Reason: Technical correction: include "nameserver"
 

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RESOLV.CONF(5)							File Formats Manual						    RESOLV.CONF(5)

NAME
resolv.conf - Domain Name System resolver configuration SYNOPSIS
/etc/resolv.conf DESCRIPTION
The /etc/resolv.conf is used to configure how the host will use the Domain Name System to resolve hostnames to IP addresses. It may con- tain these two lines: nameserver IP-address domain domain-name The nameserver entry tells the IP address of the host to use for DNS queries. If it is set to 127.0.0.1 (which is the default) then the local name daemon is used that may use the /etc/hosts database to translate host names. You normally only need a nameserver entry if the name server is at the other side of a router. The default nonamed name server can't look beyond the local network. The domain entry tells the default domain to use for unqualified hostnames. This entry is usually not given in which case the domain of the local host is used. The long version of this story can be found in resolver(5). FILES
/etc/resolv.conf DNS resolver configuration file. SEE ALSO
resolver(5), hosts(5), nonamed(8), boot(8). AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) RESOLV.CONF(5)
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