On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 22:30 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > I don't understand ... nslookup finds the right value, but ping > reports unknown host Since you mention *understanding* the issue. The simple answer is they use different mechanisms for resolving the name. One of which exposes a recently introduced problem. There's been quite a lot about this DNS issue lately, with various workarounds offered to sidestep the problem. The ones that I've seen work for some users, but not for others, and don't actually fix the problem. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines