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SAJChurchey:
I installed RH 7.3 and it worked fine w/ DHCP and DNS on this network.  I did an "upgrade" to RH 8.0, and this has worked in the past on this same machine and network.  But now, suddenly the name resolution is suddenly fucked up.  Any ideas?

voidmain:
It's hard to say without knowing more details. When you do a "service named restart" do you see any errors at the end of your /var/log/messages file indicating a problem?  Do you have an up to date root cache file? Is your /etc/resolv.conf file right? I wrote a tip on setting up DHCP and Dynamic DNS on Red Hat 8.0, don't know if it will help. You'll find it on my web site (Void's BS, like at bottom of message).

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Ooops, I thought I read you were running a DNS server and it wasn't working. Now I see it looks like you are only running a client. Sorry about that... Check your /etc/resolv.conf file and make sure it's properly configured.
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[ January 17, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]

SAJChurchey:
Well,

It appears that the resolve.conf files are identical except for this line

;generated by /sbin/dhclient-script

So, I checked for that script in /sbin but that script and neither dchclient or dhclient-script is not there for some reason.  I need to figure out a way to install dhclient.

voidmain:
I want to know the actual contents of the /etc/resolv.conf. And you already have hdclient installed or you wouldn't be getting a DHCP address. The dhclient program is /sbin/dhclient. For more information on it do a "man dhclient".

The /etc/resolv.conf file contains the list of DNS servers that your clients should use to resolve addresses. During the time that your name resolution fails can you actually ping these servers? If so, can you do this on the command line:


--- Code: ---
--- End code ---

Change "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" above to the first DNS server address listed in your /etc/resolv.conf. It should return the IP address for www.google.com. If these DNS servers are your providers DNS servers I would like to know their addresses (please copy/paste the contents of /etc/resolv.conf into a message). If I know the addresses I might possibly be able to see if there is anything wrong with them from my end.

SAJChurchey:
Well, I'm pinging them just fine.  I can't really give u the IP addresses b/c i'm not a network admin here and I don't feel comfortable just giving that info out.  All i know is that no one else is having problems and my other linux boxes don't seem to be having troubles either.

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