DNS

[timl]

Hi, I am not familiar with debian and my raspbian wifi setup has been cobbled together. I would like to assign Google's DNS address.

I assign static IP addresses to all my computers and, originally, I found the best method to achieve this with raspbian was to use the router to assign an IP address to the MAC address of the wifi card. I did this and all is fine. My interfaces file looks like:

pi@resurgam ~ $ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp

A quick flick around the net suggests I just need to add 8.8.8.8 to /etc/resolv.conf so

nameserver 192.168.1.1

becomes

nameserver 192.168.1.1 8.8.8.8

Is that correct? Then I have to restart wlan0?

Cheers

[DougieLawson]

It's wrong.

You can
either sudo apt-get install resolvconf and add dns-nameserver lines to /etc/network/interfaces
or you can code the nameservers by hand in /etc/resolv.conf (separate nameserver www.xxx.yyy.zzz line for each)
or you can update your DHCP server to send the right DNS server addresses when a DHCP client renews their lease.

[timl]

Thanks for the suggestions:

option 1 I don't really understand so I'll have to read up on that
2nd option sounds really easy but I'll have to read up on that
DHCP server. I can see that my router has DNS entries which I have never looked at before. This seems like the most logical place to make the change so I'll see how this works

Cheers