Re: resolv.conf problems

[Alexander Kushnirenko <kushnir@pccmu1.fnal.gov>]

Hi, Daniel!

It's indeed is a strange problem.  You may try a few things:

1. One you boot, can you ping computer on the same local network, just using 
it's numerical IP address?
2. Can you ping computer outside of your local network using it's numerical IP 
address?
3. Can you ping DNS server using it's numerical IP address?

This way you can check that your network card is initialized and your gateways 
and local network are configured right.  My thought here (likely to be wrong) 
is that it could be the case that somehow your /etc/inet.d/network is called 
before your network hardware is actually initialized.  Have a look in boot 
messages.

Sasha.
>   I mistyped my DNS ip address when setting up networking here.  I
> fixed resolv.conf to reflect the actual ip.  Here's the problem: after a
> boot, names don't resolve.  If I su to root and take down the network
> and restart it (via "/etc/inet.d/network down", then
> "/etc/inet.d/network up") then it works.  Does someone know how to fix
> this?  I do not want to do the poor mickey mouse solution of adding
> those 2 commands to some startup script; I'd rather understand what's
> going on in my system.  
> 
> Thanks