FC4 - Cannot resolve hosts, but nslookup works

From: Vijay Gill (vijay.s.gill_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/15/05

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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Hi,
    The following problem is occuring on my machine. ping does not work,
    but nslookup does. I get IP (and DNS server IPs for resolve.conf) from
    my ISP's DHCP server.

    Any solutions please?

    Regards from
    Vijay G.

    [root@dxr ~]# ping www.yahoo.com
    ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com

    *******************************************
    [root@dxr ~]# nslookup www.yahoo.com
    Server: 194.168.8.100
    Address: 194.168.8.100#53
    *******************************************
    Non-authoritative answer:
    www.yahoo.com canonical name = www.yahoo.akadns.net.
    Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net
    Address: 66.94.230.38
    Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net
    Address: 66.94.230.52
    Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net
    Address: 66.94.230.33
    Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net
    Address: 66.94.230.47
    Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net
    Address: 66.94.230.46
    Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net
    Address: 66.94.230.35
    Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net
    Address: 66.94.230.40
    Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net
    Address: 66.94.230.41
    *******************************************
    [root@dxr ~]# cat /etc/host.conf
    order hosts,bind
    *******************************************
    [root@dxr ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
    ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
    nameserver 194.168.8.100
    nameserver 194.168.4.100
    ******************************************* 

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