Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Robert Benjamin <benjie1 at cox.net> wrote: >>> Did you mean ping nytimes.com ? >> tcpdump -A port 50 output is tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, >> use -v or -w for all protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB >> (Ethernet), capturing size 65535 bytes, and a blinking cursor which I >> left for 20 min and re-started, tried with -v got listening on eth0, >> type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes. re-started and meant >> to use -w but forgot and just typed tcpdump. That gave tons of output >> which I can't fathom and let it go for 30 minutes. Re-started one more >> time and pinged nytimes.com That returned screenful of data packets >> all ok. Then shutdown til tomorrow. > > I think he meant port 53 instead of 50 to catch the DNS exchange - > which now sounds like it is working anyway. When you start, does > gnome eventually work normally now?. I'd do a 'yum update' on > general principles if you at least have the network running. > Thanks, Les, that was what I meant. I've been snowed under all week, and more so today: it's not one thing after another, it's three things all at the same time.... mark