Okay, I have an odd problem.

I normally install SL using a net-install boot which then fetches a 
kickstart file from our local webserver. Lately, however, trying to 
fetch the kickstart file has been failing.

Here is what seems to be the issue:

We have a local /23 subnet (ie netmask 255.255.254.0) and some of our 
DHCP addresses are in the high half.  Sometimes when the net-install 
boots and does a DHCP setup for the initial network connection, it gets 
one of these high-half addresses.  Eg, from the F4 screen:

     INFO NetworkManager: <info>  address XXX.XX.189.41
     INFO NetworkManager: <info>  prefix 23 (255.255.254.0)
INFO NetworkManager: <info>  gateway XXX.XX.188.1
INFO NetworkManager: <info>  nameserver 'YYY.YY.yy.yy'
INFO NetworkManager: <info>  nameserver 'YYY.YY.zz.zz'

So far, so good.  However, trying to fetch the kickstart file fails.  
Looking on the F3 screen I see:

     HH:MM:SS.sss ERROR   : failed to retrieve http://.....: Couldn't 
resolve host name

So it's not properly accessing the nameservers.

However, sometimes it gets a low-half ip (XXX.XX.188.xx) and then it 
works properly.

It sounds like the NetworkManger isn't properly setting up routing for 
the extra-wide subnet, but I have no way to check further. (Note, other 
machines w/ high-half ip's work fine, so it's not problems w/ the local 
network.)

Anyone have any ideas, or know if this is an existing, known bug?

- WRSomsky