Well you almost had it


Your network is obviously working.


You need to bootup and run this

dhcpcd -h yourhostname

or pump -h yourhostname




Now I am assuming this worked instantly and you are now online happier than a puppy with two tails...



even if that did not work try this

edit the file.. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no #if you want
PEERDNS=yes #this may not help, try it anyway
DHCP_HOSTNAME=ccxxxxxx-a #this is what makes it work, this must be correct or you will not get connected, no way.


now reboot it will come up on boot

if you can now get ip addresses on the internet and not www.whatever.com

put the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf

It has never been necessary for me it always did it for me.

but I run my own dns anyway

thanks david. i learned a few things. i have a question for you.
why does ping seem to break when the nameservers are not correct? ie. my name server is on a different network and the router goes down. if i am pinging an ip address on the network i'm currently on- than why does it fail with request time out (or whatever)? and even if say, i have a route out the internet (just not the internal dns server), i can't ping an outside ip address?
hope that made sense....

without a connection to a dns server you will have to use ip numbers, names will not work.

DNS means Domain Name Server

if the name cannot be resolved into a number you can not locate the computer you are trying to reach.

the name servers are set in /etc/resolv.conf

for local computers that do not have a valid domain name add them to /etc/hosts

no no. i understand that. is why i said "when pinging an ip address" (such as 205.152.0.20) and i am connected to the internet (other boxes on another network with a dns server up and running can ping names and numbers with no problems) but dns is broke (dns server is on the other network but just cant get to it) why can't i ping an ip address. ie 205.152.0.20 ?? seems odd to me.
dns IS for name to ip address translation. so why do i have to have it just to ping an ip address?????

check the default route


route -n

ahhh. right right. makes sense...

Eh

Sorry to have dropped of the map without a hint of thanks. I had to drop the problem for a while because I had to actually get some work done, then the holidays etc. Anyway, I am not sure when I am going to get back to it, but thanks a bunch for your help. It has definately got me pointed in the right direction...

Jonathan