On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:55:48PM -0000, justsimplequestions wrote:
> You're absolutely right - its definitely a DNS issue. Without even
> retyping the sources.list manually, it looks like I can not not ping
> by name either. I know in my original post I said I could ping
> external sites but it seems I was incorrect. I can not ping any sites
> using name - ip address is fine however (100% sure!). This is further
> proved by the fact that if I add the ip address associated with the
> name of the website in the hosts file, as I have done for the debian
> sites, all works fine. I have no dns server running on and not sure
> what I can do to rectify? Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
My first suggestion then would be to change the name of the thread since
its no longer an apt issue. Something like "where's my dns gone?".
Send us your:
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/resolv.conf (with the internet up if it's variable since if you
have the resolvconf package installed, the file
will change).
/etc/network/interfaces
the method you use to connect to the internet: ppp dialup, some type of
high-speed internet modem/router, whatever.
Where do you thing that your box normally gets dns service?
Doug
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