My kingdom for a working DNS

[Earl Moore]

You may want to check your dns server settings in /etc/resolv.conf you
should have something like:

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

If there is an entry there, try to ping it (your isp's dns server could be
down).

I've installed the caching nameserver and set the resolv.conf "nameserver"
variable setting to my computer's ip.  If you need more details let me know.

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alberto Molteni
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:06 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: My kingdom for a working DNS


Hi!

I've finally managed to get my speedtouch adsl modem
working. As it turned out, the speedtch module was
causing modem_run to hang. Unloading it resulted in a
bright green flash on the ADSL led (Thanks Fulvio!)

So, sing loud sing proud, I was already half way to
the moon when... catastrophe arrived disguised as a
malfunctioning DNS system.

What happens is this: all internet-based applications
work perfectly so long as I use IP addresses, but when
I dare to use a domain name, or just even click on an
absolute href link, the whole system falls to pieces.
Every single program reports Host unavailable/not
found. For example: launching Mozilla and typing
66.187.232.50 in the location bar will bring up RedHat
Home Page, but www.redhat.com will result in a quite
inelegant error message. I even tried this: "ping
66.132.146.48" (WinMX site) works, but "ping
www.winmx.com" doesn't.

Any suggestions?
Alberto Molteni
alberto_molteni at yahoo.com

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