I am getting what I believe to be inconsistent replies/results from my CentOs machine, trying to ping URLs. Pinging by URL fails the DNS lookup, while pinging the IP address (that should have been returned) works. The DNS lookup also fails NSLOOKUP, but interestingly, dig and wget return A records with the correct IP. Robert Henrichs. - = - = - - = - = - - = - = - - = - = - (INFO/examples:) cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 cat /etc/resolv.conf PBX in a Flash PURPLE Daemon Status - Version 1.8.1 Released on 041211 System Information Asterisk = ONLINE | Dahdi = ONLINE | MySQL = ONLINE SSH = ONLINE | Apache = ONLINE | Iptables = ONLINE Fail2ban = ONLINE | Internet = OFFLINE | Ip6Tables = ONLINE BlueTooth = ONLINE | Hidd = ONLINE | NTPD = ONLINE SendMail = ONLINE | Samba = OFFLINE | Webmin = ONLINE Ethernet0 = ONLINE | Ethernet1 = N/A | Wlan0 = N/A PBX in a Flash Version = 1.7.5.6 FreePBX Version = 2.8.1.4 Running Asterisk Version = 1.8.3.3 Asterisk Source Version = 1.8.3.3 Dahdi Source Version = 2.4.1.2+2.4.1 Libpri Source Version = 1.4.11.5 IP Address = 192.168.70.40 on eth0 Operating System = CentOS release 5.6 (Final) Kernel Version = 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 - 32 Bit root at pbx:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts $ cat ifcfg-eth0 # Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ DEVICE=eth0 TYPE=ethernet BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=192.168.70.255 IPADDR=192.168.70.40 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.70.2 HWADDR=00:1D:7D:26:31:D0 ONBOOT=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=pbx.local root at pbx:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts $ root at pbx:/etc $ cat resolv.conf search isp.com nameserver 216.146.35.35 nameserver 216.146.36.36 nameserver 8.8.8.8 root at pbx:/etc $ ping www.henrichs.org ping: unknown host www.henrichs.org root at pbx:/etc $ ping 69.64.155.165 PING 69.64.155.165 (69.64.155.165) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 69.64.155.165: icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=92.9 ms 64 bytes from 69.64.155.165: icmp_seq=2 ttl=238 time=89.1 ms 64 bytes from 69.64.155.165: icmp_seq=3 ttl=238 time=89.1 ms 64 bytes from 69.64.155.165: icmp_seq=4 ttl=238 time=89.7 ms 64 bytes from 69.64.155.165: icmp_seq=5 ttl=238 time=88.3 ms 64 bytes from 69.64.155.165: icmp_seq=6 ttl=238 time=90.6 ms --- 69.64.155.165 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5002ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 88.398/90.013/92.994/1.514 ms root at pbx:/etc $ tracert www.henrichs.org www.henrichs.org: Temporary failure in name resolution Cannot handle "host" cmdline arg `www.henrichs.org' on position 1 (argc 1) root at pbx:/etc $ dig www.henrichs.org ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 <<>> www.henrichs.org ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48631 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.henrichs.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.henrichs.org. 3566 IN CNAME ehost-services119.com. ehost-services119.com. 3565 IN A 69.64.155.165 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ehost-services119.com. 3565 IN NS dns1.name-services.com. ehost-services119.com. 3565 IN NS dns2.name-services.com. ehost-services119.com. 3565 IN NS dns3.name-services.com. ehost-services119.com. 3565 IN NS dns4.name-services.com. ehost-services119.com. 3565 IN NS dns5.name-services.com. ;; Query time: 18 msec ;; SERVER: 216.146.35.35#53(216.146.35.35) ;; WHEN: Wed Jun 22 12:17:53 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 194 root at pbx:/etc $ wget www.henrichs.org --2011-06-22 12:18:38-- http://www.henrichs.org/ Resolving www.henrichs.org... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution. wget: unable to resolve host address `www.henrichs.org' root at pbx:/etc $ nslookup www.henrichs.org Server: 216.146.35.35 Address: 216.146.35.35#53 Non-authoritative answer: www.henrichs.org canonical name = ehost-services119.com. Name: ehost-services119.com Address: 69.64.155.165 root at pbx:/etc $ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.70.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.70.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 root at pbx:/etc $