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LukeM
11-11-2000, 03:21 PM
I recently installed Redhat 7.0 and I set it up using the same ISP as I use in Windows(a local ISP). In Windows everything works fine, and in Redhat 7.0 everything worked fine on the first boot, but when I rebooted Redhat 7.0 and brought it up again, I could not go to several internet sites. These included www.hotmail.com (http://www.hotmail.com) and www.linuxnewbie.org, (http://www.linuxnewbie.org,) etc... and the strange thing is that I had went to all of these sites the first time I booted into Redhat 7.0. While other sites like www.anandtech.com (http://www.anandtech.com) I could go to both times I booted into Redhat 7.0. Thinking it was a "strange Redhat 7.0 bug" I formatted my hard drive and installed the new Mandrake 7.2 final install and the same exact thing happened. I could visit any internet site the first time I booted into Mandrake 7.2 and then the second time I booted into Mandrake 7.2 I could not visit certain sites(like hotmail, or linuxnewbie, etc...). I did not make any changes to any config files and I even cleared out my netscape/mozilla caches and tried again but that did not help. Can anyone help me with this very strange problem?

Luke

veloctTX
11-11-2000, 04:16 PM
Make sure you got your DNS entries right. Edit your resolv.conf file and make sure you got both your DNS servers for your ISP. Sounds to me like a problem with your ISP's DNS server, I doubt is a linux problem. Make sure that the resolve.conf looks similar to this.

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domain <domain name>
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
search <domain name>