help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please

[suhail <suhail_ua@yahoo.com>]

Hello people,

I am having problems with connecting my RedHat Linux box to the internet. I cannot seem to be able to even ping any other machine on the network. I do

> telnet localhost. I get

>localhost: Host name lookup failure.

I tried >telnet 127.0.0.1.

It waits for some time and then says:

telnet: unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out .

My /etc/hosts file reads like this :

127.0.0.1     localhost.localdomain

Also when i restarted my machine, it waits for 5-10 minutes after coming to the Sendmail process and then finally reboots. Could you please help me out as I am not able to do anything about this for 2 days now.

Help truly appreciated.

Thanks

Suhail.

 

 

 

 

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