Jon> You could also run ethereal and see if KDE is actually Jon> using localhost or trying to use the IP address of your Jon> former interface.
This is really weird.
My laptop sent out a DNS query to my primary DNS server at WORK! After 5 seconds, it sent another query to the secondary DNS server at WORK!
It looks like this.
0.0 laptop -> workdns1 query laptop.workdomain.com 5.0 laptop -> workdns2 query laptop.workdomain.com 5.1 workdns2 -> laptop no such name "laptop.workdomain.com" 5.1 laptop -> workdns1 query laptop 10.1 laptop -> workdns2 query laptop 10.2 workdns2 -> laptop no such name "laptop" 10.3 laptop -> workdns1 query laptop 15.3 laptop -> workdns2 query laptop 15.4 workdns2 -> laptop no such name "laptop"
Just to throw a little confusion in, "workdns2" is our DSL modem. At home, I have a similar DSL modem with the same IP = 192.168.1.254. So by pure chance, the DNS queries I send to "workdns2" happen to be answered by my DSL modem at home. But this does not change the overall problem.
If I "ping laptop", I see a normal DNS exchange happen.
0.0 laptop -> homedns1 query laptop 0.1 homedns1 -> laptop laptop = 192.168.1.100
Just to be sure, I checked my /etc/resolv.conf file. It looks like this:
search homedomain.com nameserver 192.168.1.1
But when I start an X-windows application, it does not use my updated DNS information... instead, it insists on using old DNS information from work to look up my local hostname.
I tried adding "192.168.1.100 laptop.homedomain.com" to my hosts file, but that did not help either.
Alan
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