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@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alberto Molteni Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:06 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxx __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
