On Apr 9, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Mat Enders wrote: > Here is a stumper. I just completed a brand new installation of > Debian, during installation it could not reach the repositories so > only a base installation was completed. > > I am logged directly into the machine not via ssh. Network appears to > have configured correctly via dhcp. > > ifconfig says I have the correct network address > route -n shows the correct gateway > resolv.conf shows the correct DNS servers > > from another machine on the network I can ping the gateway and www.google.com > from the new install attempting to ping the gateway destination host > unreachable and for Google it says unknown host > > I can ssh into the machine via its IP address and I can ssh into other > machines on the network, from the newly installed machine, via their > IP address > > I am stumped any help would be appreciated.
Take a look at your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. See if it has anything related to dns for the 'hosts' directive. If it only has files listed for hosts: you try adding dns after files so it looks like this: hosts: files dns Good luck. Steve Mayer smaye...@me.com "The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." -- Unknown
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