more dns help!

[redhatnewbie101]

Hi, If anybody can help me with this, they will also be helping my rapidly fading hair line!

I'm trying to connect my linux box ( running redhat 7) to the internet

I can dial up to my ISP fine, but when it comes to looking at webpages / actually doing anything net related i'm screwed. basicly, I can see pages hosted on my isp's servers, and that's it.

To me this is a dns issue and that is where i'm stuck.

my ISP provided dns ip is 194.62.44.10 ( which resolves as ns.netkonect.net) i've got netkonect.net as my default domain, and 194.62.44.10 as my ip of name server. and i'm stuck as to why I cannot get this to work!

[scanez]

So you have

nameserver 194.62.44.10

in /etc/resolv.conf right?

[redhatnewbie101]

I certainly do.

netkonect.net is in there as well

[scanez]

Alright, can you resolve hostnames using nslookup? Like, does

nslookup google.com

return google's ip?

[redhatnewbie101]

aha.. i'd tried this. no.

can also ping by ip but not by domain name

[scanez]

Aha, so dns must be setup incorrectly somewhere. First, you are that that is your isps dns correct? Try having just

nameserver dnsip

in /etc/resolv.conf, no domain. Also, what is in /etc/host.conf?

[redhatnewbie101]

ok.. Have set resolv.conf to just the ip address, and still no luck.

contents of etc/hosts.conf is:

order nis, hosts

[scanez]

Originally posted by redhatnewbie101:
<STRONG>ok.. Have set resolv.conf to just the ip address, and still no luck.

contents of etc/hosts.conf is:

order nis, hosts</STRONG>
Try putting this in /etc/host.conf

order hosts,bind
multi on