Usually one uses one or the other but not both. Clients searching within their own domain use the domain option; clients searching someone else's domain use the search option. George Frank Mandato wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss