Help Please: DNS Resolution Problem

[Ankush Grover]

On 4/30/05, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Installed my first Fedora machine on old PIII-550MHz system. Had
> migrated to Whitebox Linux for Production machines but could not
> resist going back to Fedora for my personal machine.
> 
> I am facing a peculiar problem...maybe I am missing the simplest thing
> but here it is...I has a Realtek 8029AS Card...Did a FC3 ISO
> install...Every time I switched the machine On, I had to activate
> eth0...as it would automatically deactivate itself.
> 
> Then I changed to another Realtek 8032 or something similar card
> (sorry am writing this from office so don't remember exact number). I
> also updated the machine using yum yesterday (Everthing Install
> option).
> 
> Now I have a different problem...my eth0 is active and the problem
> does not remain, but I do not get DNS Resolution. DNS Server entries
> are there in the Network Config GUI. Restarted the network service
> after rewriting the DNS values in GUI and saving them again. But no
> go.
> 
> One curious fact...my resolv.conf is empty...is this a change in
> Fediora? I put my DNS Servers in Resolv.conf manually and again
> restarted the network service but same results.
> 
> Where's the culprit....I have a vague feeling its me ;-)...I'm missing
> something very small and obvious.
> 
> Please help.
> Sanjay.
> 
hey,

did you check the logs .Check the logs there must be some entries for
ethernet.Post those messages here.
tail -f /var/log/messages 

through the network gui tool checkmark "to activate the ethernet card
at boot up".

Regards

Ankush