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
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:22:43PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:> > 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/etc/nsswitch.conf hosts entry -- rgds Stephen
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 GoodwinNamed isn't started by default, even if you install caching-nameserver. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
Upon installing Centos 4.4 a second time it worked "out of the box" as expected. Sorry that I caused a stir over a non-problem. I still have no idea what I did that may have caused dns to fail, I think I made all the same choices and entries the second time around? However doing this in the wee hours I had no interruptions or distractions ... Should anyone be interested the dns servers are: cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 12.189.32.61 nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220 but there may be a problem here: service named status rndc: connect failed: connection refused I'm not certain about that but next is to run yum update and do some other configuration to satisfy my own preferences. Thanks much to all. Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia