Hi All;

Having a problem resolving names. My n810 has been setup for dual-boot with Penguinbait's install-tools, so I have the ability to boot to the external SD card or internal flash. The problem only happens when booted to external SD. I just noticed it this morning. A few days ago I had installed a few routine app-manager-delivered updates to things such as wifi-info, nothing major. I forgot to charge it for a few days and it ran out of juice so last night I left it charging.

Name resolution seems to be the only thing that is broken, and it is broken regardless of the app that is trying to do the resolution. If I run nslookup and specify a name host and nameserver, I get a good result. I can ping and traceroute OK if I know the destination IP, and I can browse to sites if I know the IP -for example, my Linksys router's html config screens.

I'd like to try some basic troubleshooting before I re-clone the working flash partition to the external SD card. However, I'm not certain where to start.

ifconfig does not seem to list the DNS, (even when run while booted to the working flash partition). I'm not certain how to do the equivalent of the Windoze ipconfig /all. Does anyone know the correct utility to run to confirm that the NIT has been given a valid IP of a nameserver? Also, what process/daemon is responsible for name resolution? Named?

Tried searching the forums for "can't resolve names" and similar but no luck.

Any and all hand-holding much appreciated!

Thanks,

$teve