<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:19px">At last, after almost six weeks of frustration, and numerous attempted solutions based on suggestions by kind friends and Internet question sites, I have solved the problem (I think -- I am cautiously optimistic). The underlying symptom was that <code>yum install emacs</code> failed with a long list of errors,. Now it has finally worked, without hesitation. I don't know why, finding out is my next quest.</div>
<div style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:19px">This is what I followed:</div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:19px"><code><a href="http://qandasys.info/fedora-19-unable-to-update-or-install-could-not-resolve-host/" target="_blank">http://qandasys.info/fedora-19-unable-to-update-or-install-could-not-resolve-host/</a>
Answer by Stramash
November 4, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Resolved this by adding nameserver 8.8.8.8 above my router’s address in resolv.conf that was obtained by DHCP.
Not quite sure why it will not work with the automatic DHCP settings.
This was his e-mail to me!</code></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:19px"><code>Frank</code></pre></div>