Ray Olszewski wrote:
You don't give us much to go on, but since the problems seem to be with name resolution, I'd suggest you tell us the details of your system as they relate to that.
First is your networking setup. Are you connected to a LAN or directly to the internet? (I guess you must be if you are using MapQuest.) If so, how?
This is a LANless computer connected to the internet by a 56K modem.
I have some notion of what name-to-address resolution is for the internet but not what it is for the Linux OS. /etc/hosts contains:
More immediately, how does your system do name-to-address resolution? Does it rely on /etc/hosts? If so, what are the contents of that file? Or does it use a nameserver? If so, is it accessable? And what are the contents of the /etc/resolv.conf file?
"# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
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