On Mar 20, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Scott Silva wrote: >>> Bob Goodwin spake the following on 3/20/2007 3:22 PM: >>>> I've just installed Centos 4.4 on a computer, replacing FC6, and >>>> the >>>> first thing I find is that DNS does not work no matter what I >>>> have in >>>> /etc/resolv.conf. It should at least work with my ISP's >>>> assigned server >>>> but doesn't. Numerical URL's work via the browser and ping. Is >>>> there >>>> something else I need to attend to? >>>> >>>> I hope this is the right list for such questions. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Bob Goodwin >> >>> Named isn't started by default, even if you install caching- >>> nameserver. >> >> Named doesn't need to be running if your /etc/resolv.conf points >> elsewhere. Do you have firewalls blocking port 53? >> >> 'dig' is usually a reasonable diagnostic tool. >> > I tried disabling the firewall, still nothing. > > dig just reports "connection timed out; no servers could be reached" > > Bob > _______________________________________________ When you do a netstat -a ... Do you see something like the following?? tcp 0 0 ns1.xxdomainnamexx.com:domain *:* LISTEN -ed- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070320/20ff5476/attachment-0005.html>