[Server-devel] Can't get XS to do nameserver/resolv.conf properly, unable to access URLs

[Martin Langhoff]

2008/6/29 Tony Pearson <tpearson at us.ibm.com>:
> On the second partition, I have XS-163 level, installed from CD of the
> downloaded ISO using the unattended-batch anaconda kickstart file.  I have
> copied over the "resolv.conf" that is working on thefirst partition over to
> the second, but I am unable to resolve any names, unable to ping, elinks or
> yum install any packages.
>
> The static IP addresses match between the two, they are using the same
> ethernet port, on eth0, same MAC address, same IRQ interrupt number.  I am
> able to ping numeric values, but not names.

Odd. If your /etc/resolv.conf matches, and you can ping the dnsservers
listed there, you should be sorted - at least for resolution. Try
using the 'dig' command perhaps.

> I took tarballs of each /etc directory, and ran a "diff" against them.  "<"

That list does not look right - it shows a lot of files that aren't
really different. We have plenty of custom files, but not *that* many
;-)

cheers,



m
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