Unknown host error message when trying to ping Internet

[Matthew Carpenter]

Nope, they just made Yast2 a little less HEAVY-HANDED.  It still doesn't read in hand-edited values (they're probably too wimpy to write their tools to deal with all the values in a config)
Yast2 just looks for self-edited configs and won't overwrite them by default.

use the command "dig pcisys.net @216.229.32.170"
If that gives you an error, then there is some problem with DNS lookups and I would start looking for an IP filter somewhere (firewall or router?)  Be sure to turn off SuSEfirewall while testing if it's running.  I've found it to actually screw up troubleshooting. 

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:45:34 -0600
bof <bof at pcisys.net> wrote:

> Apparently they have changed their systems, for 216.229.33.250 was their 
> DNS server for some time and I did not look it up.
> 
> At any rate, I plugged in your values into /etc/resolv.conf and still 
> get the same unknown host message.
> 
> BTW, I was under the impression that Suse had changed Yast so that it 
> would accept values entered manually, which is how I have been editing 
> the configuration files. But when I tried using Yast2 it was still 
> calling up the older values and was not picking up the ones I had 
> manually entered.  So I changed them using Yast2  also.
> 
> Still same problem  "unknown host: pcisys.net"
> 
> BOF
> 
> Tom Wilson wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 14:50, bof wrote:
> >
> >>pcisys.net uses 216.229.32.173 as their mail server. Their DNS server is 
> >>216.229.33.250.
> >>
> >>If I try to dig or nslookup "pcisys.net" I get a "connection timed out. 
> >>no servers could be reached" message.
> >>
> >
> >Here are the results of my dig.  Looks like your name servers are 
> >ns1.pcisys.net. 216.229.32.170 and  ns2.pcisys.net.       216.229.32.166
> >  
> >
> 
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