Re: cant ping external website

Donny George:

i have set up a new ubuntu 8.04 and am trying to get the internet
connectivity. but unfortunately even after setting up the ip, the gateway
and also the file resolve.conf with the nameserver ip, the result that i get
when i ping www.web.de is ping:unknown host www.web.de

i looked for many threads regarding to this in the forums but cudnt yet get
a convincing answer

The first step is to find out what exactly is wrong. Among the things
you can do are:
- post your /etc/resolv.conf maybe there's an error in it
- do a
ping 217.72.195.42
(217.72.195.42 is what my DNS gave me as IP of www.web.de)
- do a
host www.web.de
- ping the IP of the nameserver
- do a
telnet <IP of the nameserver> domain
- if there's some other machine/device connected via IP in your local
net, ping it's IP
- post the output of
ifconfig

Regards
mks


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