Hi all
I've just changed from Centos4 to Fedora Core 4.
I was unable to get my wireless pci card up and running in FC4 and so swapped it with a usb wireless.
That usb wireless is running ok on the web, I'm usig it right now as I type this but Boinc can't resolve hostnames anymore. boinc.log shows this
2005-12-23 00:17:57 [SETI@home] URL http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/file_upload_handler: can't resolve hostname
2005-12-23 00:17:57 [SETI@home] URL http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/file_upload_handler: can't resolve hostname
2005-12-23 00:17:57 [SETI@home] Backing off 3 hours, 58 minutes, and 36 seconds on upload of file 25fe05aa.7296.497.242328.73_0_0
2005-12-23 00:22:54 [---] Can't resolve hostname [setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu] host not found or server failure
2005-12-23 00:22:54 [---] Can't resolve hostname [setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu] host not found or server failure
2005-12-23 00:22:54 [SETI@home] Couldn't start upload of 25fe05aa.7296.497.242328.73_0_0
2005-12-23 00:22:54 [SETI@home] Couldn't start upload of 25fe05aa.7296.497.242328.73_0_0
2005-12-23 00:22:54 [SETI@home] URL http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/file_upload_handler: can't resolve hostname
2005-12-23 00:22:54 [SETI@home] URL http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/file_upload_handler: can't resolve hostname
2005-12-23 00:22:54 [SETI@home] Backing off 2 hours, 6 minutes, and 8 seconds on upload of file 25fe05aa.7296.497.242328.73_0_0

I can ping setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu and setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu ok, firefox is working fine as is thunderbird, its just boinc that isn't.

Anybody have any idea what I've done wrong?

[EDIT]
hmmn, ok, if I add those URLs and IPs into my /etc/hosts it works, so I'm guessing DNS related.
Time to dig deeper

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I think, you need a to have a nameserver lookup configured. Can you please setup the nameserver lookups.
You have to got to change /etc/resolv.conf :
domain $YOUR_DOMAINNAME
nameserver $IP_OF_THE_NAMESERVER

And change following line in the /etc/nsswitch.conf :
hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns
or to
hosts: files dns

Then test with a "nslookup setiathome.berkeley.edu".

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