[Centos] Re: resolving urls

Wed Sep 29 19:35:11 UTC 2004
Rick Graves <gravesricharde at yahoo.com>

Dominic,

If you have two or more nameservers (as is normal),
you would have two or more lines in resolv.conf:

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.1
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.2

People usually have more than one nameserver because
one might not be working at any moment.

I hope this helps.

Rick


--- centos-request at caosity.org wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:16:58 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dominic Iadicicco <sctylib2004 at yahoo.com>
> To: centos Linux <centos at caosity.org>
> Subject: [Centos] resolving urls
> 
> Hello all,
> 
>    I have a clerk connect box running at my library
> and it is based on RH9.  I am having a little
trouble
> with resolving URLs.  I have two nics in it.  eth0
> with an Internet connection and and eth1 which is my
> inhouse LAN. Now I can ping IPs on the Lan, and On
the
> net but I can not ping URL's (www.yahoo.com) now I
do
> have an entry in resolv.conf  nameserver
> xxx.xxx.xx.xxx  and this setup works the same on
other
> Linux boxes some redhat some CentOS.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Dominic
>