Subject: Re: can't resolve named hosts
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Sat Mar 02 2002 - 14:43:48 MST
on 3/2/02 2:30 PM, jchristopher@takenote.net purportedly said:
> I connect to the internet via an Airport Base Station that hands out IPs
> via DHCP at boottime. Works fine for Windows and OS X clients, both
> wired and wireless.
>
> Under YDL 2.1 on my iBook, I can ping numeric hosts on my LAN, ping the
> IP of the base station, and ping external internet hosts
> (206.117.xxx.yyy, etc. ). But named hosts like mail.mydomain.com or
> www.yahoo.com just time out and never connect.
The answer is fairly obvious--it's a DNS problem. Check your resolv.conf
file to make sure valid entries are made. Depending on how your DHCP server
works, you may have to specify DNS hosts manually.
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
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