Fixed it, I commented out the "domain" and "search" lines in my resolv.conf file and it works fine now.

Thanks all for your help.

FrankM

Frank Mandato wrote:

> Here is the resolv.conf the way it set up
>
> domain qwest.net
> nameserver 206.80.192.1
> nameserver 204.147.80.81
> search qwest.net
>
> Matt Alexander wrote:
>
> > What does /etc/resolv.conf say?
> >
> > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Frank Mandato wrote:
> >
> > >    I can not access any website with their FQDN, however I have no
> > > problem getting anywhere when I use the numeric IP addresses.
> > >
> > >   I had to change my server name to its numeric IP address in order to
> > > send or receive mail.
> > >
> > >   I am not running any DNS servers on my machine, sometimes I can use
> > > domain names, sometimes I can't. I am with qwest ( not much longer ) and
> > > I have a domain parked at zoneedit.com that I use on this machine as a
> > > test bed.
> > >
> > >   I have no problems pinging IP addresses, but can't ping domain names.
> > >
> > >   My distro is RH 7.2 kernel 2.4.9 and I am using a Netgear NIC.
> > >
> > >   Anyone have any ideas what I did wrong??
> > >
> > >   TIA
> > >
> > >   FrankM
> > >
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