Michelle:
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When you reconfigured your RH box to use static a static IP address, did you ALSO configure at least one name server address in the network settings, as well?
It sounds like your LinkSys router probably had name server addresses included as part of its configuration. When your RH box was configured to get IP settings through DHCP, it would get the name server addresses as part of the information coming back from the LinkSys DCHP server. When you disabled DHCP on the box, it was no longer getting those name server addresses. So, if you didn't specify name server addresses yourself, the only way you're going to be able to contact the outside world is via IP addresses.
(I'll bet the LinkSys box was getting its network settings from a DHCP server at your cable company, and those DHCP settings included addresses of DNS servers that were then being passed along to your RH box by the DHCP server in the LinkSys box.)
I think this could be an easy problem to fix!
Eric Chevalier
Eric,
I do have the same DNS settings for the RH box, the Windows box, and the router, and I have changed both RH and Windows back to getting dynamic IP's. THAT part is working, including getting the right DNS information. However, name lookups only work with ping and nslookup (and host on RH), but not with the browser.
Aaaaargh.
-Michelle
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