On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 15:06, Alberto Molteni wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 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.
>
I would guess that you do not have the DNS provided by your ISP properly
configured
You should try the caching name server which is basically a
configuration of bind that polls the root servers for DNS information.
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