Re: [Hampshire] problems with /etc/network/interfaces on Deb…

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Author: Sean Gibbins
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] problems with /etc/network/interfaces on Debian Etch box
Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 03:24:26PM +0000, hantslug@??? wrote:
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>> # iface eth0 inet static
>> #       address 192.168.0.2
>> #       netmask 255.255.255.0
>> #       gateway 192.168.0.1
>> #       dns-nameservers 212.23.3.100 212.23.6.100

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>> Can anyone see what is wrong? All suggestions very gratefully received.
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> I've never seen dns-nameservers used in an interfaces file but otherwise
> it looks fine.
>


I think that is a fairly recent development as I note my newer Ubuntu
boxes have this and no entries within /etc/resolv.conf - no harm in
leaving it commented out for the purposes of testing.

> I presume that that address isn't in use by anything else locally and
> that you checked that all the pump or dhclient processes had gone away.


Something along these lines was my first thought: tried an alternative
address Lisi?

Sean