Hi<br><br>This is puzzling me. I have been on a server attempting to set up radicale but nothing to interfere with the networking function of the server - as far as I knew.<br><br>On purging the installation and attempting to download the apt version I found that it couldn't connect to apt-catcher.<br><br>DNS was obviously foobarred, as was the internet with no pings or traceroute.<br><br>Logged in via the console and got internet back up and running by re-adding the gateway to ip route.<br><br>I'm then attempted to get DNS working. The configuration at /etc/network/interfaces looked ok.<br><br>auto eth0<br>iface eth0 inet static<br>        address 85.119.83.xx<br>        netmask 255.255.248.0<br>        gateway 85.119.80.1<br>        # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed<br>        dns-nameservers 85.119.80.232 85.119.80.233<br><br>Nothing in /etc/resolv.conf.<br><br>I've tried reloading interfaces by installing resolvconf and -d and -a with no joy.<br><br>I could dig using the Bitfolk DNS on the command line, i.e. dig @85.119.80.232 www.google.com, but standard DNS queries timed out.<br><br>I then added the Bitfolk DNS manually to resolv.conf, rebooted and I was still without name resolution as resolvconf is now controlling the file and had deleted my entries!<br><br># Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)<br>#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN<br><br>I fixed this by adding nameserver entries to the resolv.conf.d/head, rebooted and DNS working but no internet.<br><br>Added the gateway again and everything is finally working - fingers crossed.<br><br>Thank goodness for console access!<br><br>Any ideas as to the best approach to fix this properly please and any idea what I could have done to wreak such havoc?<br><br>TIA<br><br>Steve<br><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.