At 25 July, 2003 Asgodom Woldu wrote:
> However, when I replaced this card with the Belkin F5D5000, i was able
> to ping my other PC, and vice versa. i wasn't able to ping for example
> 'www.yahoo.com', but if i used the actual ip address (216.109.125.79)
> it works. This became important when i tried to use 'emerge sync',
> where i get the error message: 
> 'starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage...
>   rsync: get addrinfo: rsync.gentoo.org 873: Temporary failure in name
>   resolution.
>   rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c (83)'
> 
> So, i used the 'emerge-webrsync' command instead. My question is, does
> this accomplish the same objective, or do i need to find a solution to
> the name resolution problem to finish the installation process?

Yes, you'll need a working nameserver.
Try these two public nameservers - put them into /etc/resolv.conf:
        209.104.63.240
        209.104.63.241

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Andrew Farmer
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