Jay Swenberger

Hello All, I've been using Pep10 and 11 for a few years, on a couple of machines, as a very light user. I need to relearn the basics every time I need to do much of anything. However, I have basic command line experience going back to DOS days... I'm looking into downsizing my home office setup. I bounce back and forth between replacing my heavily upgraded desktop tower set up with either a laptop connected to a docking station and a dual monitor setup or a MiniPC. I don't play games, I have no intensive...

SOLVED!!!! Hello All, I just returned from a few days away and booted my desktop. No problems with that but I have no internet access, wired or wireless. All the other devices in the house work fine. I've reset the modem and router...no changes. Ping 8.8.8.8 is good, ping www.google.com does not resolve. I tried switching the DNS server from the ISP automatic to Google but no change. Everything worked fine 4 days ago when I shut down. Thought? ps: typing this out on a tablet really sucks!!!

SOLVED!!! with this link https://www.tecmint.com/set-permanent-dns-nameservers-in-ubuntu-debian/ short answer: 1. install resolvconf utility 2. edit /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head with desired nameserver entries!!! Jay

So I'm able to temporarily solve the problem by directly editing the /etc/resolv.conf file. However, when trying to change any network connection settings or on rebooting the computer, my entries are over written and returned to: nameserver ::1 I've edited the ethernet IPv4 connection setting to Automatic (DHCP) addresses only and added 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as the DNS servers...but this doesn't help.

I've finally had some time to do some digging (definitely a newbie in Linux) and online reading. Here are some findings - typed out on this different machine (typos are mine): /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files mdns4_minimal (NOTFOUND=return) dns /etc/resolv.conf Generated by NetworkManager nameserver ::1 /etc/hosts Standard host addresses 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters This host address 127.0.1.1 jollymon

When looking at my unaffected laptop running Pep 10, I see these differences: /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 127.0.0.53 options edns0 /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 aspire5

I've finally had some time to do some digging (definitely a newbie in Linux) and online reading. Here are some findings - typed out on this different machine (typos are mine): /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files mdns4_minimal (NOTFOUND=return) dns /etc/resolv.conf Generated by NetworkManager nameserver ::1 /etc/hosts Standard host addresses 127.0.0.7 localhost ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters This host address 127.0.1.1 jollymon

Any thoughts?