On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 11:04 -0500, Jim wrote: > Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: > > Steven Stern wrote: > >> OK. I don't understand this: > >> > >> [sdstern@sds-desk ~]$ ping sstern.ccim.com > >> ping: unknown host sstern.ccim.com > >> > >> BUT > >> > >> [sdstern@sds-desk ~]$ nslookup sstern.ccim.com > >> Server: 127.0.0.1 > >> Address: 127.0.0.1#53 > >> > >> Non-authoritative answer: > >> Name: sstern.ccim.com > >> Address: 12.40.135.219 > >> > >> nslookup finds the right value, but ping reports unknown host. I > >> haven't changed any of my configuration files. > >> > > What is in your /etc/resolv.conf ? > > You could put localhost(127.0.0.1) as first entry in there. And maybe > > delete other nameserver entries as you have local dns-server. > > > > Greetings, > > Veli-Pekka > > > Heres the fix. > > http://www.fedorafaq.org/f10/#dns-slow That's not a fix, that's an last-resort escape applicable in some sub-set of cases. Ralf -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines