Re: Weird DNS error?
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Greg van Anders
<gregvananders@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm a bit embarrassed to be asking this question, but I just did a
> brand new installation of Squeeze. The install seemed to go fine and I
> didn't notice any problems.
>
> Upon booting, however, I don't seem to be able to resolve any hosts
> other than www.debian.org and security.debian.org.
>
> If I bring up epiphany it can load various pages on www.debian.org. If
> I try to browse elsewhere I get errors. The software center also
> allowed me to apply security updates.
>
> If I open up a terminal, ifconfig shows an IP address, and I can
> traceroute to other hosts for which I know the IP, but I can't for
> anything I specify by name.
>
> I tried to apt-get update, but, of course, it can't find the mirror.
>
> I'm not sure what I'm missing here. Can anyone help?
>
> I'd be happy to supply whatever information is needed to help diagnose
> the problem.
ifconfig
netstat -rn
cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv.conf
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