On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 11:45 -0400, Neil Cherry wrote: > Andrew wrote: > > This makes no sense to me. I can go to www.yahoo.com in a browser but I > > can't ping yahoo.com and nothing on my network blocks pings or > > yahoo.com. I also can't ping local hosts in my hosts list but I can > > ping their ip address. This is a fedora core 5 install and everything > > was working fine untill i ran yum update. Something else thats odd, > > ping does not say that it has failed or can't connect, it just hangs > > untill I break it. I also tried putting a nfs entry in my fstab and > > that wont mount either (it uses a host name instead of a ip address). > > > > Here is my resolv.conf > > ------ > > search sondermuell > > This (above) looks a little weird, I have this: > > search uucp comcast.net ewndsr01.nj.comcast.net > domain uucp > > Note: I have my own local DNS (tinydns) handling .uucp and I > don't share that with the outside world. Everything else > is handled by Comcast, my ISP. > > > nameserver 192.168.1.1 > > nameserver 216.231.41.2 > > nameserver 66.93.87.2 > > I have something similar to that. > Check for avc denials in /var/log/audit/audit.log related to resolv.conf.... You could try to do a "restorecon /etc/resolv.conf" and see if that helps.... Saw something like this on an updated RHEL4 system a couple of months ago and it was the context of resolv.conf getting "mis-set".... HTH, --Rob
