[ILUG] Network access problems :-(

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2001, Lemon, Matthew wrote:

> I have a new installation of RH7.2 running on my desktop at work. 
> The machine starts without any errors but if I try to ping any machine by
> it's name, the ping fails. I can ping to an IP address but not a name. I
> checked the DNS settings for the card in Linuxconf and they are the right
> ones. What could be wrong ? 

Aparently a number of people have been having problems with linuxconf.

Try editing /etc/resolv.conf it should look like:

search ucd.ie
nameserver 137.43.1.13

where your domain is ucd.ie and yor dns server is 137.43.1.13.

The restart networking by 

/etc/rc.d/init.d/networking restart

(that might be network not networking I don't know cos I don't use RH).

Gavin