DNS not working

Steven ** montgoss+openmokodevice at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 02:16:54 CEST 2008


No.  I did not.  I was adding it as you responded though.  And that
was the issue.

I'll be editing the wiki right now to make it a little more obvious
that this step is necessary.  I skipped right over that section...

-Steven

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:07 PM, ian douglas <ian.douglas at iandouglas.com> wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> Do you have the iptables code set up on your PC as well? It will need to
> be able to do packet forwarding to/from the Freerunner.
>
> On your local PC, if you're using Ubuntu, your /etc/network/interfaces
> would look something like this:
>
> auto usb0
> iface usb0 inet static
>   address 192.168.0.200
>   netmask 255.255.255.0
>   network 192.168.0.0
>   up iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.0/24 &
>   up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward &
>   up iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT &
>   down iptables -D POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.0/24 &
>
> I use that set up myself on my laptop (as well as the
> /etc/network/interfaces code that goes on the Freerunner itself) and my
> Freerunner connects to the Internet just fine.
>
> -id
>
>
> Steven ** wrote:
>> I've edited /etc/network/interfaces per the instructions on the
>> Getting Started page, but no luck.  I can't get any domain names to
>> resolve.  I also tried my ISP's DNS servers instead of OpenDNS's.  No
>> difference.  I restarted after the change to make sure it was using
>> the new DNS server (and I can see it is when I do a nslookup).
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steven
>>
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