Terry Polzin: >A simple disconnect and reconnect of your wired connection should renew >it's IP address and /etc/resolv.conf else why not just reboot. I have already rebooted many times, no help. My request on how to restart NetworkManager is more out of desperation, in the mad hope that kicking NetworkManager via "restart" might make my f16 capable of not getting that DNS failed error. Jack -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org