Hello,
I had bought this month's Digit magazine which had 3 distro ISOs in one
DVD. OpenSuse, Fedora11 (live+Install) and Ubuntu 9.04 (Live+Install).
Thankfully, the ISOs did not throw up any md5sum errors.
First the Fedora live cd was booted. Everything came up fine. I checked
out the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts folder to check out the ifup-eth0
file but was surprised to see that there was no such file. The command
ifconfig threw up the eth0 details. The networking was taken over by
'Network-Manager', the gui utility for gnome. Then Firefox was tried
out. It was 3.5 Beta4. Sites opened lightning fast. Out of curiosity I
checked out the dns entries in resolv.conf and saw the following DNS
server entries (using dhcp). 59.185.0.23 and 59.185.0.50. Then I logged
into my MTNL Triband modem to discover that I had earlier disabled DNS
relay and my preferred DNS servers were the 203.94..... entries. In the
modem's interface however, the DNS is 59.183.63.254. I wonder how
59.185.0.23 got into the DNS entries of the computer. However I am happy
as these servers seem to be very quick.
The Ubuntu 9.04 cd was then booted and even here the DNS entries were
59.185.0.23 and 50. Again, the sites opened very fast. As with Fedora11,
the /etc/network/interfaces file had only one entry for lo. There was no
entry for eth0.
The observations made were.
1. MTNL's new DNS servers 59.185.0.23 & 50 are very fast and those
entries should replace the traditional 203.94... entries in machines
with static ips. Before this, at 2 of my clients' places I had to use
the open dns ip as the secondary dns entry for sites to open at least.
Now I can try out these new IPs.
2. The gui networking utilities have completely taken over the
traditional distro network config files and we don't even know how these
GUIs are storing their config files to be able to read/modify them. I
recollect, before throwing out knetwork-manager from my Lenny, I had a
tough time trying to locate the config files for the same and even
googling did not help.
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Regards,
Rony.
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