On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 13:59 +0000, Dick Holland wrote: > I've installed F14 on a box that was running F8 (I know, I know...) and > DNS is not working properly. > > nslookup and dig can both find google.com quite successfully, but any > other method of trying to connect to remote site (http, telnet, ftp) all > fail with the same error that they cannot resolve the name. I have > disabled SElinux, the firewall, and the iptables and ip6tables services. > > Whether I configure the ethernet connection with DHCP or a static IP > address the results are the same, as they are if I'm using 64-bit or > 32-bit F14. The results below are for a DHCP setup on 32-bit F14, which > is really straight out of the box. > [snip] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Here's the result of a "telnet google.com 80": > > telnet: google.com: Name or service not known > google.com: Host name lookup failure > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I've trawled the forums and mailing list archives and I've searched > Redhat bugzilla. I've seen references to 64-bit DNS problems in F10-F11, > but nothing still open that I can find. > > So I've concluded that I'm doing something stupid - or not doing > something sensible and necessary. Can anyone tell me what that might be? Dick, What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf 'host:' line say? --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
