I can't resolve from the command line but I can from a browser.

[Robert Locke]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:27 -0600, Andrew wrote:
> Robert Locke wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 11:45 -0400, Neil Cherry wrote:
> >   
> >> Andrew wrote:
> >>     
> >>> This makes no sense to me.  I can go to www.yahoo.com in a browser but I 
> >>> can't ping yahoo.com and nothing on my network blocks pings or 
> >>> yahoo.com.  I also can't ping local hosts in my hosts list but I can 
> >>> ping their ip address.  This is a fedora core 5 install and everything 
> >>> was working fine untill i ran yum update.   Something else thats odd, 
> >>> ping does not say that it has failed or can't connect, it just hangs 
> >>> untill I break it.  I also tried putting a nfs entry in my fstab and 
> >>> that wont mount either (it uses a host name instead of a ip address).
> >>>
> >>> Here is my resolv.conf
> >>> ------
> >>> search sondermuell
> >>>       
> >> This (above) looks a little weird, I have this:
> >>
> >> search uucp comcast.net ewndsr01.nj.comcast.net
> >> domain uucp
> >>
> >> Note: I have my own local DNS (tinydns) handling .uucp and I
> >> don't share that with the outside world. Everything else
> >> is handled by Comcast, my ISP.
> >>
> >>     
> >>> nameserver 192.168.1.1
> >>> nameserver 216.231.41.2
> >>> nameserver 66.93.87.2
> >>>       
> >> I have something similar to that.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Check for avc denials in /var/log/audit/audit.log related to
> > resolv.conf....
> >
> > You could try to do a "restorecon /etc/resolv.conf" and see if that
> > helps....  Saw something like this on an updated RHEL4 system a couple
> > of months ago and it was the context of resolv.conf getting
> > "mis-set"....
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > --Rob
> >
> >
> >   
> I didn't have a folder called /var/log/audit.  I did run restorecon 
> /etc/resolv.conf but I'm still having the same problem.  :(
> Something else thats odd is that when i type getent hosts on the ldap I 
> can see the query but when I ping something there is no query showing up 
> in ldap.
> 

LDAP??  I was trying to help you with DNS....  But I see another thread
with Craig helping you on LDAP, so you're in good hands....

--Rob