Lost ability to connect to Internet on test installation.

[Jim Cornette]

Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 20:58 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>I upgraded my system two days ago and somehow cannot resolve connection 
>>to get a connection to the Internet with this Installation now.
>>
>>I can communicate with the router and have no problems with this 
>>feature. I cannot get out to the rest of the world now after the 
>>upgraded packages were added.
>>
>>On the other two installations (development, a bit behind on upgrades 
>>and on the FC2 installation, things work fine still. The setup for all 
>>installations is the same and my FC3T1 test installation worked 
>>connecting until yesterday, after turning on machine.
>>
>>I tried to restart the network, remove and add again the NICs and 
>>connect directly to the Internet without the router. I was able to get 
>>an IP address via DHCP when trying either through the router or directly 
>>through the 2wire modem via the ethernet port.
>>
>>Looking through the available updates, I see none that might have 
>>changed something related to Internet Connections.
>>
>>Any clues to what might have caused the lost connections is appreciated. 
>>Wild guesses welcome.
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>
> 
> recreate /etc/resolv.conf from one of your working systems, then you can
> get the fix in the current updates.
> 
> 

Thanks! I'll try that approach next time. Was the /etc/resolve.conf file 
messed up by a particular package?

Jim