> You mean you have a "router" in between or a switch? Sorry, in fact it's a small Linksys 5 ports hub. > 127.0.0.1 you mean and not 127.0.0.0? I mean 127.0.0.1. > Your gateway is a small hardware router? Yes: it is linked with my high speed modem and it connects all the computer in the house (for me it go first to the hub). > Does it act as a DHCP server > for the Fedora host? Probably: the only thing I know is that, when installing fedora, I choose the option that permits to configure automatically my connexion via DHCP. > What is the content of /etc/resolv.conf on your > Fedora host? Does it have the same DNS settings as the Windows� host? The file only contains (since I realizes my error of having modifying it before with the second dns 206.47.244.57): # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > You can modify it a bit: first run it with the DNS IP listed first in > /etc/resolv.conf > > $ dig www.google.com +trace @<DNS 1st server> It said no server could be reach. > and then with the second > $ dig www.google.com +trace @<DNS 2st server> I obtain: [ja@localhost ~]$ dig www.google.com +trace @206.47.244.57 ; <<>> DiG 9.2.5 <<>> www.google.com +trace @206.47.244.57 ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd . 410537 IN NS l.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS m.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS i.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS e.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS d.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS a.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS h.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS c.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS g.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS f.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS b.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS j.root-servers.net. . 410537 IN NS k.root-servers.net. ;; Received 436 bytes from 206.47.244.57#53(206.47.244.57) in 34 ms com. 172800 IN NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; Received 504 bytes from 198.32.64.12#53(l.root-servers.net) in 10038 ms google.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.google.com. google.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.google.com. google.com. 172800 IN NS ns3.google.com. google.com. 172800 IN NS ns4.google.com. ;; Received 168 bytes from 192.5.6.30#53(A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 10040 ms www.google.com. 900 IN CNAME www.l.google.com. l.google.com. 86400 IN NS a.l.google.com. l.google.com. 86400 IN NS b.l.google.com. l.google.com. 86400 IN NS c.l.google.com. l.google.com. 86400 IN NS e.l.google.com. ;; Received 180 bytes from 216.239.32.10#53(ns1.google.com) in 10047 ms [ja@localhost ~]$ > > > Thanks > > JA > > $ cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.0.2 serendipity.dogma.lan serendipity > > That is for example the content of my hosts file. The first line is > important for the localhost (loopback) processing. The other line maps > my hostname in long and short format to my host's IP. > > Alexander > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list