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voidmain:
I don't know what to tell you then. It's sort of like going to a mechanic and telling him your car just stops in the middle of the road and then asking him what's wrong with it without giving any more information. Are the DNS servers in question internal to your company or are the external servers provided by a provider? I guess that really doesn't matter since you say your other Linux boxes aren't having a problem. I have been running Red Hat 8.0 on many machines since it came out with no troubles like this, and I haven't heard anyone else mention any problems similar to yours.

I assume that you can ping IP addresses that will not resolve and I also assume you can not resolve the IP addresses using the "host" or "nslookup" commands during the period that you are having difficulty. Is that true? If you can not ping the IP address of the DNS servers during the time that the problem exists then it's likely not a DNS issue but a lower level network problem. Either your network cards or drivers are having problems or you have a flaky cable or hub/switch or port on that hub/switch. At any rate it would come down to a level of trouble-shooting below the DNS level.

SAJChurchey:
Well,

I had to pull a classical reinstall, although I wish I could have figured a way to solve the problem w/out resorting to that.  Thanx for the help.

Follow up:

I reinstalled, and it is still giving me the same problems w/ name resolution.  I'm sending in a support request to RH although they have not been much help in the past.

[ January 19, 2003: Message edited by: SAJChurchey ]

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