On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:54:54AM -0500, Don wrote: > Relatively new Fedora Core 3 box. I have one NIC installed on the external > (internet) interface. Installed a second NIC for my internal interface; > then my problems started. > > 1) destroyed /etc/hosts; I had to rebuild it > 2) destroyed /etc/resolv.conf; I had to rebuild it > 3) For whatever reason, decided to make eth0 now eth1 and vice versa - I > think I have it straightened out. > > Now when I ping other machines (or the same machine) on the current network, > it pings fine. When I try to ping an internet site, it hangs for a while > and then tells me, for example: > > Ping: unknown host: yahoo.com Hi Don, I have to assume you used Redhat's GUI tools to configure the new NIC. Thats it what probably caused your problem. Check the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file to make sure that the correct info is in it. If not, correct it (as root) and then restart your network. -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ http://kinz.org http://www.fedoratracker.org http://www.fedorafaq.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ~ ~ ~ ~
