Thanks Kent and Meni. Hmmm. Yes, things got a bit better after I sorted out the router (I had been tweaking in desperation, restored factory defaults and set up the DSL iface).
I now have all OK with my 2.4.27 kernel. But with 2.6.8 kernel, still problems: - can ping hosts by name - can ping hosts by IP - can lookup hosts using nslookup - can see sites with mozilla if I use the IP address - CANNOT see sites by name with mozilla. I'm baffled. It's such an odd combination of things to be kernel-version dependent. I have looked through kernel config for anything that MIGHT affect DNS in any way, but no joy. I've booted up twice into each kernel with same results, nothing else was changed in between. Any ideas? This has to be some glaringly obvious stupid thing that I just can't see for looking, right .... ? Dan -- Daniel McBrearty Electronics and Software Engineering http://danmcb.sdf-eu.org/eng/index.cgi
