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

[Andrew]

Robert Locke wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
I didn't have a folder called /var/log/audit.  I did run restorecon 
/etc/resolv.conf but I'm still having the same problem.  :(
Something else thats odd is that when i type getent hosts on the ldap I 
can see the query but when I ping something there is no query showing up 
in ldap.

Thanks again
-Andrew