On 27/07/06,
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Craig Preston wrote:
> I have a strange problem that seems to be DNS related. From a command
> prompt I can ping an address, say www.google.com < http://www.google.com>
> and I will get a reponse. If I type a web address into the web browser
> (firefox) it can't resolve the name and the connection times out. If I
> put the IP address in the web browser it works and the web page is
> displayed. This also seems to affect yum. If I do a yum update or
> whatever, it times out and cannot connect to the update server.
>
> All my networking settings look correct, it is strange. Any help would
> be appreciated.
>
> Craig
>
Have a look in /etc/nsswitch.conf. In my configuration, I have a line as:
hosts: files dns
Without this line, I had similar yum problems.
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