Philip Creevy wrote:
> Gooday all
> I have a friend using Ubuntu 6.?? and he is having DNS
> problems, could someone point me at a good howto and
> what tools I can use to poke the problem.
> I can ping any IP address and browse IP addresses
> but cannot resolve names.
> A different computer connected to the same ethernet cable
> works.
>> Regards
> Philip
>>
if it is a dhcp client machine (i.e. gets a dynamic ip from a router)
then you could be really lazy and type
close web browsers
sudo dhclient
open web browsers should work
if not
cat /etc/resolv.conf
check if the name servers it is looking up are sensible
also note that 6.10 is out of support
and 6.06 is about to fall out of favour for desktops
(3 years from release) and has about two years left for server only mode
poke:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-344212.html
an upgrade is in order
P.
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