Hi,

I'm a bit new. I have RedHat and my eth0 says that it's active and I did a "ifconfig" and it does have an ip address, but I cannot seem to ping any web sites or any NAMED computer on the network. Locally, I can ping via an IP ADDRESS, but not by name. And on the web I can't ping anything.

All the other Windows-based PCs can get out to the internet with no problem.

This problem is happening at work. So; I took my notebook home and tried it there and the same problem happened. At home I have Bellsouth DSL so they've provided a really cheap DSL modem and all the computers connect to it via a router/hub. At work we have T1.

Well, you need to make sure both "route" and your "/etc/resolv.conf" are properly set up. Are you using DHCP?

Yes I am using DHCP. I don't now about "route", but I did open my resolv.conf (based on another post I looked at) and I didn't see anything relative. I'm not logged into my system right now so I don't know what it says... but it only had 1 line of text and it didn't look important at all.

Hi,

You'll need to add a nameserver to the resolve.conf file. Try adding the following line

namesever X.X.X.X #Assign for example the IP address of your ISP's DNS. Also you can assign as many nameservers as you like. For example you could add a local DNS if you have one.

Trying pinging again.

Also you may want to check if your firewall allows ICMP packets. I suspect it would since you can ping locally via IP addresses.

Hope this helps.

YEyayagaagauiagiaa yahhooooo!!!! Ok thank you for posting. Because you mentioned certain things I dug into my Network Configuration and solved the problem. It was something very simple that I didn't do. I went to the Ethernet Device properties and enabled the option to "Automatically obtain DNS information from provider". That's it. So it was totally my fault. Thanks. I'm online now.

Question; do you use Firefox.. what browser should I use and what email client should I use? Thanks.

http://www.getfirefox.com/ Firefox is my web browser of choice.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ and Thunderbird is my email client of choice.

Did my suggestion help? Firefox is a good browser to use and so is Lynx if you want a text browser. As for an email client Thunderbird is good as well. I guess you must be using KDE or Gnome. They come with some great applications as well as far as browsers and email clients are concerned.

Hi Obie,

Your suggestion helped me to take another close look at my configurations.. Thanks.

No worries. I was glad to help. That's the great thing about linux/open source, sharing knowledge.