Problems with DHCPCD and Cox.net

[Mike Butash]

	I would suggest setting up a local resolver, but other than that, no.  Dns
is included in the dhcp advertisements, so you should/could be pulling them
from there.  Essentially the IP's for those dns servers shouldn't be
changing anytime soon again, as the only reason they did is @home shut down
their old local dns boxen when they shut down the company for good friday
morning.  If you want, resolve and set ns1.coxmail.com and ns2.coxmail.com
for tertiary and quadrary (sp?).  They won't change, but they are not local
to phoenix.

-mbutash


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Lee Einer
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 3:56 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Problems with DHCPCD and Cox.net


Thanks, Ed-
You're a prince among men. I plugged in the new DNS numbers you suggested,
and I now have connectivity with the internet through Linux once more. I
don't have a router box- mine is just a stand-alone PC. Is there a way for
me to detect the correct DNS numbers if Cox decides to change things again
in the future?
Thanks again, and thanks to all who responded to my post.
Lee Einer
Ed Cernek wrote:
 This may not apply to you, but I, too, had COX problems this morning. I was
able to solve it by changing my dns'. The old ones were 24.1.240.x. My
LinkSys router box, which is dhcp to COX, now reports the dns as 68.2.16.30
and 68.1.208.30. I plugged these in and it worked like a charmEd.
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Lee Einer
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 07:45
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Problems with DHCPCD and Cox.net

Hi, all-
I am a linux newbie (2 years experience) living here in Phoenix. I run a
dual boot with Corel Linux 2nd edition and Windows 98. I am regrettably
posting to you from the Windows side, as I am now unable to connect to the
intranet using Linux.
I had no appreciable problems connecting until yesterday. I have verified
that DHCPCD is still starting at boot-up and is running. Ifconfig shows that
the network connection is up, and the ip addresses look valid to me,
although on one or two occasions when I have run it the RX line shows that a
large amount of data has been dropped. I am no whiz at this, but I think
that I have tried the most obvious, such as killing DHCPCD and then
restarting from a command line with -r, -h, etc--, renaming the resolve.conf
file, shutting off power to the modem and then restarting the modem, all
without success.  I am at wit's end here, I hate using Windows, and I want
my Linux back.
Is anyone else having these blues? I thought it odd that this happened on
the day after Cox supposedly terminated any vestiges of @home service
(e-mail, etc.) I would appreciate any help/advice you can give on
troubleshooting and fixing this problem.
Thanks,
Lee Einer,
Phoenix, AZ
http://members.cox.net/appealsman