-----Original Message----- From: Chris [mailto:admin@brevsville.com.au]

Run YAST and set the first DNS ip to that of your ISP's primary DNS. Restart the system.

There is absolutely no reason to restart the system after updating your DNS via YaST. And there is rarely any reason to restart the system after any network change, just change run levels if init scripts need to be re-read.

Try it again. does it now work? If yes the DNS on your local system has a config problem. If no, then try pinging the ip of the sites you are trying to access. if that work try using you browser access the same site. If all that work... then odds are you need to fix you own DNS.

It would help if Jerry's /etc/resolv.conf (and possibly /etc/nsswitch.conf) was posted here so we can make sure YaST is writing it properly. And if all else fails, try putting the ip address and host name for one of the sites into your /etc/hosts for troubleshooting purposes. Can you ping the IP address of your ISP's DNS server?

Or if ping works but browsing to the ip doesn't work, then make sure your browser is setup to use the proxies yoru ISP may be forcing you to use.

Greg

On Mon, 01 May 2000 08:45:20 -0500, gsommerdorf wrote:

...

I seem to be having some problems with DNS.

I have a DSL modem (cisco 675) on my system with eth0 as 10.0.0.1 My network card is set to 10.0.0.20 My gateway is 10.0.0.1, and I have my DNS set to the ip address my isp gave me.

I can ping any out ip address I want to, but when I use Netscape or Lynx I get a time out and an error message that it can not find the URL. I can see from the hub that the requist is not even being sent.

Anyone have any ideas on what I need to do to get this to work???

Because e-mail can be altered electronically, the integrity of this communication cannot be guaranteed. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/