<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>When things go screwy, DNS is usually a culprit.</div><div><br></div><div>First things first - </div><div><br></div><div>Can you ping the IP address that was assigned to you?</div><div><br></div><div>Can you ping 192.168.1.1?</div><div><br></div><div>If you type</div><div><br></div><div>dig google.com</div><div><br></div><div>at the command line, what happens?</div><div><br></div><div>Can you ping google.com?</div><div><br></div><div>Oh, and turn off Avahi if it's installed and see if that mystically fixes your problems. It likes to hijack DNS</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Marc Ferguson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>I'm running Fedora 10 x86_64 and I really think something is odd about my ability to network and I think it's all pointing to DNS. First, I've been running Linux (full time) for almost a year, but I am still a newb. There are still some Windows concepts that I haven't been able to shake yet, so please be very simple yet thorough with your replies (I'd appreciate it).<br> <br>So here's the meat of my cry-for-help caserole. <br><ul><li>I'm having a problem pinging my hostname. I'll ping it and 127.0.0.1 is the resulting IP.<br></li><li>I see that my router has given my computer an IP address, but it doesn't have the hostname in its table.</li> <li>I can't ping, by host name, my computer from any other computer on the home network.</li></ul>So because of those issues, I can't properly network my linux box with other computers in my home network. I just found out (from a friend) that I had an internal firewall turned on. I didn't even realize that Fedora shipped with a firewall. From my Windows-days, I've learned that software firewall causes too many headaches. So; I disabled the firewall I discovered in Fedora. Thanks for any feedback.<br> <br><u><b>system-config-network 1.5.95</b></u><br>I'm not all that handy with command-line network configuring yet so I'm using the GUI program system-config-network. In my DNS tab here are my settings:<br><ul><li> hostname: unicron.cybertron</li><li>primary dns: 192.168.1.1 (router)</li><li>secondary dns:</li><li>tertiary dns:</li><li>dns search path: unicron<br></li></ul><br>-- <br>Marc F.<br><br><a href="http://www.fergytech.com">www.fergytech.com</a><br> Registered Linux User: #410978<br><br>"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!"<br> _______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>