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 >