I can't resolve from the command line but I can from a browser.

[Neil Cherry]

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.

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