FC4 - Cannot resolve hosts, but nslookup works

Vijay Gill vijay.s.gill at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 15:39:04 UTC 2005


Hi,
The following problem is occuring on my machine. ping does not work,
but nslookup does. I get IP (and DNS server IPs for resolve.conf) from
my ISP's DHCP server.

Any solutions please?

Regards from
Vijay G.

[root at dxr ~]# ping www.yahoo.com
ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com

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[root at dxr ~]# nslookup www.yahoo.com
Server:         194.168.8.100
Address:        194.168.8.100#53
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Non-authoritative answer:
www.yahoo.com   canonical name = www.yahoo.akadns.net.
Name:   www.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 66.94.230.38
Name:   www.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 66.94.230.52
Name:   www.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 66.94.230.33
Name:   www.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 66.94.230.47
Name:   www.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 66.94.230.46
Name:   www.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 66.94.230.35
Name:   www.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 66.94.230.40
Name:   www.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 66.94.230.41
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[root at dxr ~]# cat /etc/host.conf
order hosts,bind
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[root at dxr ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
nameserver 194.168.8.100
nameserver 194.168.4.100
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