Problems after getting new Wan/Lan Gateway

[JDlugosz]

I just switched broadband providers, and even though I set the new gateway to the same IP address and everything, my Debian (VMWare) machines don't resolve DNS.

I found this:

bash prompt# cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
domain gateway.2wire.net
search gateway.2wire.net
nameserver 192.168.1.254

and furthermore the file resolv.conf is not a symbolic link. I found some information on the Web concerning "Network Manager" but no simple answer on how to "kick it" to recognize that the 2wire device is gone and something else has been installed (although I kept it at 192.168.1.254). I guess I could copy the DNS addresses as reported my my Windows machine (which did figure it out!) to the interfaces file, but I want to fix it "right".

(from my interfaces file)

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
   address 192.168.1.25
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   gateway 192.168.1.254

Please advise.

[Lazydog]

Windows figured this out because it is most likely using DHCP which would provide this information.

I take it you are using static addresses on your linux box so you need to update the resolv.conf file by hand. Simply copy the DNS ip address from the windows machine to the resolv.conf file replacing the ip address listed on the line with nameserver.

You also might want to think about changing the domains on the 2 lines above this also to show the correct domain.