FC4 - Cannot resolve hosts, but nslookup works

[Nigel Wade]

Vijay Gill wrote:
> 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?
> 

When I get these sort of problems my first (and normally correct) suspect is 
nscd. Try 'nscd -i hosts' and then retry the request.

nslookup goes direct to the DNS server, bypassing the name resolver.

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