[lug] Cannot connect to the Internet with a web browser when trying to use an URL.

[Warren Sanders]

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Temporary outage? Did you try pinging 216.229.32.169?  Maybe add a secondary 
NS.  Did others using the same DNS work?

BOF wrote:
> I am running RH 8.0 (Pyscho) and cannot connect to the Internet with a 
> web browser when trying to use an URL.
> 
> When using Netscape, the error message is (for example when trying to 
> reach Red Hat)
> 
>    www.redhat.com could not be found
> 
> When using Konquerer, the message is
> 
>    hostname lookup failure
> 
> I can load the Redhat site if I give its IP address (66.187.232.56) in 
> either browser. I can also ping varous sites using either the URL or the 
> IP address.
> 
> My /etc/resolv.conf file is
> 
>    search pcisys.net
>    nameserver 216.229.32.169
> 
> Which is the same file that works with my RH 7.3 system.
> 
> It seems that there is something not working with the nameserver lookup 
> but I can not figure it out.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> BOF
> 
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Warren Sanders
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