redhat is connected to the internet, but i cant browse the web??!?! please help
 

ok i have a problem (redhat 8) i can sucessfully connect to my adsl to the internet and in the messages in the /var/log/ says it sucessfully connected. also i can view my website ( http://81.128.153.122 ) from a dial up modem. but i cant browse the internet, if i type www.yahoo.com for eg it says cannot find www.yahoo.com as if i where not connected to the internet. i am just a bit confused why this is happening it worked fine for a few days until now i just restarted the adsl connected properly i went to internet browser and now i cant browse the internet, but i am connected as i can view my website from a dial up modem on my laptop if you go to http://81.128.153.122 you sould see a white page with 'THIS IS A TEST PAGE OF MIKES LINUX SERVER ' in text. please can someone advise what is going wrong, thanks allot
myk3

p.s. if i reinstall redhat and reconfigure the adsl it works fine as this problem happend to me befor but i reinstalled redhat 8 and it worked fine. it has happend again and i dont want to have to reinstall redhat every time it happens.
thanks allot myk3

hmm,
..your DNS-Server settings are correct ?
(/etc/resolv.conf)
if you can ping a IP-Adress but not a domainname it mybe a problem with DNS.


J.H. :)

ok cool, ill try that, to ping an ip it is 'ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' in the bash shell, just to conferm. sorry only started learning linux on friday :O

Yes, ping yahoo.com or ping 66.218.71.198

Re: redhat is connected to the internet, but i cant browse the web??!?! please help
 

;) pls check the dns server ip address of ur ISP (from a windows 2k based mechine just connect internet and from command prompt type ipconfig /all. u will get the dns ip address ,other wise call ur isp and ask for dns ip . then in linux add the dns address in /etc/resolv.conf
syntax

vi/etc/resol.conf

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

:wq

relpce the xxx with ur original dns ip


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