New member, and a little quick question..

[Duane Attaway]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Minos wrote:

> 1st I started trouble shooting my connection, set up, ect.. I can ping
> myself, my router, other box's on my network. Hell, i can ping Yahoo's
> IP, google's ip, ect..buuuut.. I get a error when trying to goto
> Google.com, something about host name.  And up2date, redhats little

Were you using ping under a root window?

When checking your /etc/resolv.conf file, make sure it has world readable
permissions.  Once redhat was kind enough to chmod it 700 for me, allowing
the strange condition that only processes run by root could get names.  
Imagine only being able to run mozilla under root.

This is what you want to see:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           89 Sep 23 10:31 /etc/resolv.conf

not this:

-rw-------    1 root     root           89 Sep 23 10:31 /etc/resolv.conf

redhat's QA does amazing things...