DNS Problem Maybe

[Joachim Backes]

Craig Preston wrote:
> I have a strange problem that seems to be DNS related. From a command 
> prompt I can ping an address, say www.google.com <http://www.google.com> 
> and I will get a reponse. If I type a web address into the web browser 
> (firefox) it can't resolve the name and the connection times out. If I 
> put the IP address in the web browser it works and the web page is 
> displayed. This also seems to affect yum. If I do a yum update or 
> whatever, it times out and cannot connect to the update server.
> 
> All my networking settings look correct, it is strange. Any help would 
> be appreciated.
> 
> Craig
> 

Have a look in /etc/nsswitch.conf. In my configuration, I have a line as:

	hosts:      files dns

Without this line, I had similar yum problems.

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