DNS problem with 8.1 and static ip address

[neilg4rqn]

Do you really mean nameserver?

Sorry friend but I didn't even then notice that you told me first ! Perhaps my kids are right ....

[chili555]

Perhaps I should have been clearer and asked you at the outset to change the file. I wondered, however, if you just made an error posting it in the forum and if it was, indeed, correct in the actual file.

[neilg4rqn]

So near yet so far. great I thought - now I can get on the web etc. Well nearly - I cannot yet get to http://localhost

[DGortze380]

So near yet so far. great I thought - now I can get on the web etc. Well nearly - I cannot yet get to http://localhost

can you please post the output of

cat /etc/hosts

look for the line

127.0.0.1          localhost

add it at the top of the file if it doesn't exist.

[neilg4rqn]

Hi Dgortze380, here it is

neil@neil-ubuntu3:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 neil-ubuntu3

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

[casdio]

Hi.
Sorry for post it here, but I think it's on-topic.

My /etc/resolv.conf file changes himself. I asked a friend to let me see his file and it said:

#Generated by network manager

Mine says:

# Dynamic resolv.conf( 5) file for glibc resolver( 3) generated by resolvconf(8 )
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

Anyone knows what the problem can be? I don't want it to change alone

[DGortze380]

Hi.
Sorry for post it here, but I think it's on-topic.

My /etc/resolv.conf file changes himself. I asked a friend to let me see his file and it said:


Mine says:


Anyone knows what the problem can be? I don't want it to change alone

Please start your own thread for this problem

[DGortze380]

Hi Dgortze380, here it is

neil@neil-ubuntu3:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 neil-ubuntu3

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

weird, what happens if you ping localhost?

[neilg4rqn]

I was told that the network manager would overwrite that file and the advice I had was to remove it, bet to read all of this thread first though.

[neilg4rqn]

Hi, yoou wrote "weird, what happens if you ping localhost?"

neil@neil-ubuntu3:~$ ping http://localhost
ping: unknown host http://localhost

then I tried

neil@neil-ubuntu3:~$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.043 ms

and I get a reply. When I type localhost into my browser it adds the http:// bit.