I installed Kubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 9.10. Both had no internet connection. I had numerous errors like no repository sources, errors like 'Requested packages are already installed' when they were not present on the box and many other non-related faults. All were caused by lack of a DNS server connection. After a week of trying various things like disabling ipv6 and getting nowhere (although it did fix Firefox), I did an 'apt-get update' and instead of just failing it resolved to 10.0.0.0 (not my dns server or router). I read that this could be something to do with D-Link routers not supporting ipv6. That problem aside, after some more research I found that the 10.0.0.0 problem relates to the /etc/resolv.conf file being overwritten with some of the info from /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. So to fix it....
su {then enter pass} nano /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf then edit the following line from.... #prepend domain-name-server 127xxx.xxx.xxx.1, xxx.xxx.xxx.2 to.... prepend domain-name-server 111.222.333.444 (where 111.222.333.444 is *your* DNS server) then save the file and disconnect and reconnect your wlan0 and/or eth0 interface via the network connection icon on the notification bar/panel. When the interface is up the etc/resolv.conf file still gets overwritten and the incorrect nameserver 10.0.0.0 is still there but the correct DNS server is added _before_ it. Thus the internet (and apt-get etc) now works fine :-D So you could say this problem is solved. It seems this problem is giving *ubuntu 9.10 a bad name. Let's hope the next version resolves this (pun intended ;-) Regards, Guru http://guru.mameworld.info -- keeps rewriting /etc/resolv.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435874 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs