How do you list your DNS servers? Linux really needs an IPCONFIG command

I don't know about IPCONFIG. On Linux DNS servers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf and DHCP leases are stored in /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases. WINS servers are handled by Samba. but as I don't use it I don't know about the details.

Try ifconfig.

Yes in linux we use

ifconfig

stupid Microsquish started using ipconfig instead just to be different and awkward. On the command-line you can get a quick help, cheat sheet on all the tags and how to use them by typing

ifconfig --help

Click the button at the bottom of VanillaMozilla's answer if this has helped because i just copied his/her answer and made it verbose ;)
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

In private network the gateway is often identical with DNS.
Compare
route -n
with
nslookup 127.0.0.1 | grep Server

http://www.debianadmin.com/ubuntu-networking-for-basic-and-advanced-users.html

##btw. the usage of 'ifconfig' was already mentioned in the entry post.
Quote: Lets see: the IP, netmask, broadcast address and MAC Address are listed by 'ifconfig'.

The list so far:

IP, Netmask, Broadcast, MAC addresses: ifconfig
Default gateway: route
DNS servers: cat /etc/resolv.conf

Still needed: commands to tell you whether a workstation is using DHCP or a static address?

If a workstation is using DHCP, which commands tell you:

- what DHCP server provided the address info
- what WINS server is it now using

All this information is present in the "Connection Info" from the NetworkManager.
Just right-click on the icon and select the connection info entry.

Pawel: I'm sure I've seen this before, but where is NetworkManager? Typing NetworkManager from a command line appears to require root access but preceeding it with sudo, yields neither an window nor an error message.

Over and above the point that I'd still like to be able to find NetworkManager, I've got the "network connection eth0" icon on my upper panel but it doesn't hve a "Connection Info" item in it's contectext menu. The properties item has a support tab that shows some of the information I'm looking for, as I indicated in my question. Yet, I'm almost certain I've seen the menu you were referring to.

Last: If you go back and re-read the original question, you'll note from my last paragraph that I was looking for command-line methods for determining the IP info, much like IPConfig gives in Windows.

Pawel: I'm sure I've seen this before, but where is NetworkManager? Typing NetworkManager from a command line appears to require root access but preceeding it with sudo, yields neither an window nor an error message.

Over and above the point that I'd still like to be able to find NetworkManager, I've got the "network connection eth0" icon on my upper panel but it doesn't hve a "Connection Info" item in it's contectext menu. The properties item has a support tab that shows some of the information I'm looking for, as I indicated in my question. Yet, I'm almost certain I've seen the menu you were referring to.

Last: If you go back and re-read the original question, you'll note from my last paragraph that I was looking for command-line methods for determining the IP info, much like IPConfig gives in Windows.

Thanks for the link. Now I know where I've seen Network Manager - and now I know it's missing. It's also not in my System->Administration menu. I'll make a separate thread for this.

Thanks for the link. Now I know where I've seen Network Manager - and now I know it's missing. It's also not in my System->Administration menu. I'll make a separate thread for this.

Glad to see in question #82285 that you've 'found' network manager.
Enjoy Ubuntu.

Thanks Sam, that solved my question.